Anarchism, organization and management : critical perspectives for students /
edited by Martin Parker, Konstantin Stoborod and Thomas Swann.
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction: management and anarchism, and organization -- PART I Managers and management: history and present -- 2 An anarchist prehistory of management -- 3 Anarchy in management today -- PART II People and organizations -- 4 Difference and diversity in organizations -- 5 Managing the self -- 6 Business ethics -- PART III Structure and culture -- 7 Decision making and power -- 8 Organizational culture -- 9 Leadership and authority -- PART IV Markets, finance and accounting -- 10 Finance and value 11 Accounting in organizations and society -- PART V New technology and new economy -- 12 The collaborative and sharing economy -- 13 Crowdsourcing and digital platforms -- 14 Trust, finance and cryptocurrencies -- PART VI Markets and exchange -- 15 Marketing, advertising and persuasion -- 16 Innovation and entrepreneurship -- 17 Exchange beyond the market -- 18 Conclusion: what to do with this book -- Index
"You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how an understanding of the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly. Anarchism is a theory of organizing, and in times when global capitalism is in question, we need new ideas more than ever. The reader of this book will learn how anarchist ideas are relevant to today's management problems. In a series of student friendly short chapters on contemporary topics, the authors challenge the common sense that has allowed particular forms of organization and market to become globally dominant. Do we always need leaders? Is technological change always a good thing? Are markets the best way to arrange forms of exchange? This challenging book is essential for anyone who wants to understand what is wrong with business school theory, and what we might do about it. For students and teachers of management, the standard textbook reproduces the dominant ideas about the way that business should be done. This book turns those ideas on their head, asking awkward questions about authority, technology and markets, and demanding that its readers think hard about whether they want to reproduce those ideas too. Students of management, like everyone else, know that the current global system is broken but they don't know what they can do about it. This unique book uses two hundred years of anarchist ideas to give readers a clear guide for building the organizations and businesses of the future, and places choice and responsibility at the centre of making a new world for people and planet"--
Anarchism--History. Organization. Business enterprises. Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism