The Vulnerable Fortress: Bureaucratic Organization and Management in the Information Age

by James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every, Elizabeth Van Every

In this challenging book, James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every argue that partly as a result of the introduction of information and communications technology into the workplace, the nature and authority of the traditional bureaucratic form of organization is being called into question. While not espousing technological determinism, they contend that developments in telecommunications, and computer software, constitute at one and the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077730
• ISBN13: 9780802077738
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"