Gibson Burrell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 259599 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gibson Burrell |
| NOMBRES | Gibson |
| APELLIDO | Burrell |
| FIRMA | BURRELL G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3696-7323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 367 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production. Questions of who produces knowledge about what, and how that knowledge is produced, are inherent to ed…
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Contents: Introduction. Part I In Search of a Framework: Assumptions about the nature of social science Assumptions about the nature of society Two dimensions: four paradigms. Part II The Paradigms Explored: Functionalist sociology Functionalist organisation theory Interpretive sociology The interpretive paradigm and the study of organisations Radical humanism Anti-organisation theory Radical structuralism Radical organisation theory. Part III Co…
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Assumptions about the Nature of Social Science
Two Dimensions
Functionalist Sociology
Imperialism and the military-peasantry complex
This chapter focuses on the range of military operations within the empire and how it was managed in different places and at different times, with or without indigenous peasantry. It looks to the history of some anti-colonial movements – and imperial gambits too – which involve, in one way or another, that category known here as 'the peasant'. G. A. Cohen maintains that the 'imposition of the historically burdened Western contrasts of town and co…
Licence to kill? On the organization of destruction in the 21st century
War, the organized destruction of human beings, of human lifeworlds and modes of livelihood, has long been regarded as outside the usual preoccupations of organization studies. And yet, as the various on-going “asymmetric wars” increasingly become the taken for granted background noise of contemporary life, this aloofness becomes difficult to maintain. This special issue then is an initial contribution to a long overdue conversation. By way of in…
The role of coal-mining towns in social theory
Coal mining has ceased in Britain to all intents and purposes. For centuries, it was a source of employment and even economic security for thousands of men, and the women who lived with them. Miners clung on to life in dangerous occupations – second only to fishing in accident and mortality rates – but strong trade unionism and collectivism mean that for some periods they were regarded as relatively well-off within the working class, if one used …
For Robert Cooper
Being occupied
‘Organizational wellness’ has become a high profile issue for businesses. We argue that a ‘wellness movement’ has sprung up around a particular coalescence of economic, ideological and organizational interests. In this article we re-read the discourse of this ‘movement’ through the lens of ‘organized embodiment’. We argue that organizational wellness operates as a rhetorical device which masks contradictory power relations. It serves to hide diff…
A book at bedtime
Styles of Organizing
"In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives. The book aims to illuminate organization theory by discussing its interrelationship with key features of economics, architect…
The Will to Form
This chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings of the present volume, which seeks to integrate four disciplinary areas around the notion of styles of organizing. The book argues that these four terms — ‘system’, ‘architecture’, ‘organizing’, and ‘design’ — are best seen as tautologies and as such we need to see and investigate not so much their interrelations as their ‘intra-actions’. By arguing for analysis of their intra-actions arising fr…
Journals à la mode? Twenty years of living alongside Mode 2 and the new production of knowledge
This article considers the institutional and political background to the life of Organization associated with continuing debates about ‘modes of scientific knowledge’ and the supposed rise of Mode 2. It suggests that Organization should provide space for a more fully theorized and politically aware position of the new—and old—production of knowledge. It does so by, first, critically exploring the substantial volume of work that continues to insis…
Disturbing structure
In this paper, we look at buildings from the ‘disturbing’ perspective of ruin and ruination. The relationship between buildings and ruins appears to be an antithesis, one between organisation and disorganisation: a dyad of mutually exclusive opposites. However, we try to show how the relationship between buildings and ruins is more complex and multifaceted so that rather than being the play of opposites, it is one which is mutually enacting and i…
In praise of warfarin
Martin Parker's review of the Oxford Handbook is full of pithy comments about something to which he is central – critical management studies (hereafter CMS). Its tone is reminiscent of the active i
Handbooks, Swarms, and Living Dangerously
Foucauldian and Postmodern Thought and the Analysis of Work
The editors have been kind enough to give me the time and space to develop this chapter but there is a sense in which its inclusion in the current book reflects significant shifts in thinking about the role of certain types of social theory in the analysis of work.
Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management Studies
Why Neo-Disciplinary? Why Now
Plays on Words
Utopiary
Time and Talk
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
The paper introduces the current debate in the human sciences between the opposing conceptual positions of 'modernism' and 'postmodernism' and discusses its implications for organizational analysis. The debate focusses on the nature of 'discourse' (information, knowledge, communication) and its role in social systems. The discourse of modernism rests on transcendent yet anthropocentric criteria such as 'progress' and 'reason' which are varyingly …
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
Contents: Introduction. Part I In Search of a Framework: Assumptions about the nature of social science Assumptions about the nature of society Two dimensions: four paradigms. Part II The Paradigms Explored: Functionalist sociology Functionalist organisation theory Interpretive sociology The interpretive paradigm and the study of organisations Radical humanism Anti-organisation theory Radical structuralism Radical organisation theory. Part III Co…
Sex and Organizational Analysis
The focus of the paper is on the process of organizational desexualization which has taken place over a long historical period and upon the resistance which this process has engendered amongst organizational subordinates. The eradication of the high level of sexual activity which took place in pre-industrial organizations was sought by those in positions of authority and the paper considers the variety of mechanisms which were developed to attain…
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Disturbing structure
In this paper, we look at buildings from the ‘disturbing’ perspective of ruin and ruination. The relationship between buildings and ruins appears to be an antithesis, one between organisation and disorganisation: a dyad of mutually exclusive opposites. However, we try to show how the relationship between buildings and ruins is more complex and multifaceted so that rather than being the play of opposites, it is one which is mutually enacting and i…
Utopiary
The role of coal-mining towns in social theory
Coal mining has ceased in Britain to all intents and purposes. For centuries, it was a source of employment and even economic security for thousands of men, and the women who lived with them. Miners clung on to life in dangerous occupations – second only to fishing in accident and mortality rates – but strong trade unionism and collectivism mean that for some periods they were regarded as relatively well-off within the working class, if one used …
New technology based firms and the emergence of new industries
This article challenges conventional theories on the role of NTBFs in the growth of new industries. Its‘community dynamics’approach is an alternative to the SPRU model of‘dynamic complementaries’and argues that while NTBFs are crucial, their capacity for employment generation is low
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Sex and Organizational Analysis
The focus of the paper is on the process of organizational desexualization which has taken place over a long historical period and upon the resistance which this process has engendered amongst organizational subordinates. The eradication of the high level of sexual activity which took place in pre-industrial organizations was sought by those in positions of authority and the paper considers the variety of mechanisms which were developed to attain…
Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2
This paper, the second in a series on the relevance of the modernist-postmodernist debate to organizational analysis, looks at the work of the late Michel Foucault. Whilst his work is seen as producing a whole series of problems for those brought up in an Anglo-American tradition of intellectual endeavour, it is maintained that his work is suggestive of alternative ways of approaching problems and ordering material. A three fold periodization of …
The Japanisation of British industry
This article seeks to clarify the meaning of ‘Japanisation’ in the British economic context, and distinguishes at least three variants: direct, mediated and permeated or full. It is argued that a more satisfactory analysis needs to take account of the interrelationships between economic structures, economic systems, organisational units and employment practices
New technology based firms and the emergence of new industries
This article challenges conventional theories on the role of NTBFs in the growth of new industries. Its‘community dynamics’approach is an alternative to the SPRU model of‘dynamic complementaries’and argues that while NTBFs are crucial, their capacity for employment generation is low
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
The paper introduces the current debate in the human sciences between the opposing conceptual positions of 'modernism' and 'postmodernism' and discusses its implications for organizational analysis. The debate focusses on the nature of 'discourse' (information, knowledge, communication) and its role in social systems. The discourse of modernism rests on transcendent yet anthropocentric criteria such as 'progress' and 'reason' which are varyingly …
The Sexuality of organization
Pandemonium
Challenging the underlying assumptions and values of contemporary linear organisation theory, this book examines what the author sees as wrong with society, and suggests a new style of organisation theory and practice to effect change
Time and Talk
Plays on Words
Utopiary
Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management Studies
Why Neo-Disciplinary? Why Now
Foucauldian and Postmodern Thought and the Analysis of Work
The editors have been kind enough to give me the time and space to develop this chapter but there is a sense in which its inclusion in the current book reflects significant shifts in thinking about the role of certain types of social theory in the analysis of work.
Handbooks, Swarms, and Living Dangerously
In praise of warfarin
Martin Parker's review of the Oxford Handbook is full of pithy comments about something to which he is central – critical management studies (hereafter CMS). Its tone is reminiscent of the active i
Disturbing structure
In this paper, we look at buildings from the ‘disturbing’ perspective of ruin and ruination. The relationship between buildings and ruins appears to be an antithesis, one between organisation and disorganisation: a dyad of mutually exclusive opposites. However, we try to show how the relationship between buildings and ruins is more complex and multifaceted so that rather than being the play of opposites, it is one which is mutually enacting and i…
Styles of Organizing
"In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives. The book aims to illuminate organization theory by discussing its interrelationship with key features of economics, architect…
The Will to Form
This chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings of the present volume, which seeks to integrate four disciplinary areas around the notion of styles of organizing. The book argues that these four terms — ‘system’, ‘architecture’, ‘organizing’, and ‘design’ — are best seen as tautologies and as such we need to see and investigate not so much their interrelations as their ‘intra-actions’. By arguing for analysis of their intra-actions arising fr…
Journals à la mode? Twenty years of living alongside Mode 2 and the new production of knowledge
This article considers the institutional and political background to the life of Organization associated with continuing debates about ‘modes of scientific knowledge’ and the supposed rise of Mode 2. It suggests that Organization should provide space for a more fully theorized and politically aware position of the new—and old—production of knowledge. It does so by, first, critically exploring the substantial volume of work that continues to insis…
Being occupied
‘Organizational wellness’ has become a high profile issue for businesses. We argue that a ‘wellness movement’ has sprung up around a particular coalescence of economic, ideological and organizational interests. In this article we re-read the discourse of this ‘movement’ through the lens of ‘organized embodiment’. We argue that organizational wellness operates as a rhetorical device which masks contradictory power relations. It serves to hide diff…
A book at bedtime
For Robert Cooper
Licence to kill? On the organization of destruction in the 21st century
War, the organized destruction of human beings, of human lifeworlds and modes of livelihood, has long been regarded as outside the usual preoccupations of organization studies. And yet, as the various on-going “asymmetric wars” increasingly become the taken for granted background noise of contemporary life, this aloofness becomes difficult to maintain. This special issue then is an initial contribution to a long overdue conversation. By way of in…
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