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> The book's compelling conclusion is that instead of a tendency towards
> increasing theoretical refinement, what is more evident is a trend towards
> fictionalization, which ends in the contemporary paradigm of flatter, more
> participative and democratic organizational forms.
Really? Boy I haven't seen this anywhere I've worked in the last twenty years...except for very, very small companies.
Joanna
I agree, Joanna. There are very, very few authentically democratic organizations. However, it seems that the pundits of management thought do not see it this way. The paragraph you quote from the publisher's description of my book refers precisely to the ideology of these management gurus. Ernesto
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