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Author:   Susan Wright
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9780415087476

ISBN 10:   0415087473
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   25 August 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Culture in anthropology and organizational studies Part I Indigenous management Introduction 2 Indigenous management and the management of indigenous knowledge 3 ‘Owning’ without owners, managing with few managers: lessons from Third World irrigators 4 Institution building: examining the fit between bureaucracies and indigenous systems Part II Gender and organizational change Introduction 5 Play of power: women, men and equality initiatives in a trade union 6 Office affairs 7 The gendered terrains of paternalism 8 Culture, gender and organizational change in British welfare benefits services Part III Clients and empowerment Introduction 9 Community care as de-institutionalization? Continuity and change in the transition from hospital to community-based care 10 Disempowerment and marginalization of clients in divorce court cases 11 Idioms of bureaucracy and informality in a local Housing Aid Office

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Susan Wright is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

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