Critical Studies In Organization & Bureaucracy

Contemporary scholarship and classic essays focus on the continuing crises in bureaucratic organizations and managerial authority. Rethinking and innovation in private, public, and nonprofit organizations emerge from case studies on schools, multicultural and feminist organizations, private corporations, environmental planning and regulation, alternative services, and attempts to "reinvent government." Author note: Frank Fischer teaches Political Science and Public Administration at Rutgers University and has published several books, including "Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise" and "The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning". Carmen Sirianni teaches Sociology at Brandeis University and is co-editor of the Labor and Social Change series at Temple University Press. His books include "Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform" (Temple) and "Working Time in Transition" (Temple).