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The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization Tolbert, Pamela S., Professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Thompson, Paul, Professor of Organizational Analysis and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Business School, University of Strathclyde Batt, Rosemary, Alice H. Cook Professor of Women and Work at the Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University Ackroyd, Stephen, Professor of Organizational Analysis at Lancaster Management School where he is Head of the Department of Organization,, Work and Technology Print publication date: 2006 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929924-9 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
20 Post-Bureaucracy? doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199299249.003.0025 Mats Alvesson Paul Thompson Abstract: Introduction – Post-Bureaucracy and Shifts in the Grounds of Critique – The Territories of Change – Evaluating Claims and Empirical Work – Conclusions and Discussion: The Difficulties of Exploring Bureaucracy Keywords: bureaucracy,	Related Content in OHO 'Max Weber and the Ethics of Office' in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies
Paul Thompson is Professor of Organizational Analysis and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Business School at the University of Strathclyde. Among his publications are: The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process (1983, 2nd edn, 1989); Work Organizations (3rd edn, with David McHugh, 2002), and Organizational Misbehaviour (with Stephen Ackroyd, 1999). He is co-organizer of the International Labour Process Conference; as well as co-editing the Palgrave Series Management, Work and Organization, and Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization. email: p.thompson@strath.ac.uk Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden. His current research interests include knowledge-intensive firms, leadership processes, and identity construction. He has published widely in the leading academic journals in the management and organizational behavior fields. Recent books include Reflexive Methodology (with K. Sköldberg, 2000), Understanding Organizational Culture (2002), Studying Management Critically (edited with H. Willmott, 2003), and Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms (2004). email: Mats.Alvesson@fek.lu.se	Paul Thompson External web page Mats Alvesson External web page