From bureaucracy to hyperarchy in netcentric and quick learning organizations : exploring future public management practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Jones, L. R. |
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| Imprint: | Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Research in public management Research in public management (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286437 |
| Summary: | This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations. We agree with Evans and Wurster and others who have argued that, in the future, knowledge-based productive relationships will be designed around fluid, teambased collaborative communities, either within organizations (i.e., deconstructed value chains), or in collaborative alliances such as those with amorphous and permeable corporate boundaries characteristic of companies in the Silicon Valley that is, deconstructed supply chains. In such relationships everyone can communicate richly with everyone else on the basis of shared standards and, like the Internet itself, these relationships will eliminate the need to channel information, thereby eliminating the trade-off between information bandwidth and connectivity. The possibility (or the threat) of random access and information symmetry, they conclude, will destroy all hierarchies, whether of logic or power |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781607525875 1607525879 9781593116057 1593116055 9781593116064 1593116063 |