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A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations Paperback – 9 December 2008

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Relevant across a range of management courses, the Second Edition of A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations offers students a lively, focused and challenging discussion of classical and current ideas about organizations and their management. Building on the hugely popular first edition, a new chapter explores the relationship between organization theory and behaviour as it exists today.

Chris Grey shies away from the sterility of conventional textbooks, offering students an accessible and palatable overview of the field of organization studies that questions and challenges the traditional literature.

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208 pages
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English
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Sage Publications Ltd
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9 December 2008
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13.34 x 0.64 x 19.05 cm
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184787343X
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978-1847873439
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sage Publications Ltd; 2 edition (9 December 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 184787343X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847873439
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 0.64 x 19.05 cm

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Christopher Grey FAcSS is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Before that he held Professorships at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, where he was also a Fellow of Wolfson College. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge, Velux Foundation Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, a Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research, Sweden and Visitng Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. Between 2010 and 2012 he was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. In 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning, Associate Editor of Organization and is on the Editorial Boards of several journals including Organization Studies and the Academy of Management Education and Learning.

He writes a blog associated with his book A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations which can be found at http://author-chrisgrey.blogspot.co.uk/ and another on Brexit at https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/ from which his book Brexit Unfolded developed. He tweets about Brexit on @chrisgreybrexit

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Lifelong Litterateur

Good Theory and Good Writing Style

Reviewed in the United States on 21 December 2011

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I liked the style this book was written in. It kept my attention, and overall the theory behind the book and all of its chapters were very insightful and I agreed with them. The only downside I had with this book was that I disagreed with some of Grey's points of views within the sub-categories of the text. And this is hardly a complaint, since one cannot expect to agree with everyone. Seeing others points of view which differ from yours are good, but it was the books weak point. Overall, very satisfied and glad I read it!

Ronald G. Young

best critique of modern society I've read - pity about the title....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2010

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A year ago, I awarded this book 3 stars only (for the reasons set out in the lower part of the review). I have now (July 2011)reread it (after a year's interval)and award it the full five. The reason for the change in rating is simply that I now see its contribution going far beyond that of studying organisstions - and more in the field of social criticism. If only it had a different title, it would be a best-seller!!

The book promises much at the start - with iconoclastic attacks on the types of writing about organisations - but left me, at the end, with the impression sociologists generally do and which indeed the author anticipates half way through in a paragraph entitled - Why are you always carping? "You may well be thinking, he says, something along the lines - will nothing ever satisfy you? Older approaches to organisations have been condemned as dehumanising and degrading. Human-relations-type approaches are manipulative. Culture management is brainwashing. Now we have non-hierarchical, personally-focused and trust-based organisations (he attacks Richard Semmler's writing about Semco) and you are still whinging". Quite!
I know you can't say a great deal about the study of organisations in 180 pages - but the book's de-constructivism is a bit repetitive.
And I was shocked to see no references to those whose study of organisations were practically grounded and focussed - eg those associated with the Tavistock Institute such as Emery and Trist; or Revans (action-learning). No mention of Eliott Jacques who was associated with Glacier Metal. Nor of the OD consultant, Roger Harrison, who worked with Charles Handy (also not mentioned) on the idea of organisational cultures (The Gods of Management). Ronnie Lessem was also a fascinating writer. One of Grey's central questions is why writing in this field is so boring - but he has missed so many individuals whose writing IS interesting. Perhaps because the focus of his book is on the study of organisations in business schools (about which he has a separate chapter). He does make the point that the guru figures in these schools are American - and most of the names I;ve mentioned are British! The title therefore is misleading - he should have added that qualification.
And a lot of money and energy is spent on the study of organisations in the public sector - which hardly figures in his book. Granted the models people use for this work draws on the fashions of the private sector - and perhaps it deserves a separate book. But some references would still be appropriate.
ps the book is advertised as having 208 pages - it actually has 187!

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Lady J.D.

Short Fairly Interesting book

Reviewed in the United States on 2 February 2013

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I chose this book for my business class. I am currently reading this book and so far the reading are enjoyable.

Gavin Stokes

An excellent insight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2011

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I found this a very enjoyable read, not from the viewpoint of a course book, but simply as a well written book. Its extremely enlightening and gets you thinking about the world we live in. Its never boring and I have been back to it twice and will be back to it many times more. I am studying information technology and would highly recommend it to anybody studying organisations or managerial techniques before they become indoctrinated into a way of thinking.

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Hervé Benjamin

Globally fine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2020

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Book is globally in good state, but some pages are folded and the cover is dirty.

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