The book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of power relations within a heavily bureaucratised organization attempting to introduce post-bureaucratic structures, policies and systems.

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The author’s review of the power in organizations literature demonstrates that it is largely made up of to two streams of power analysis: the idealist and the pragmatist streams.
Power is shown to be tied to the rationalities, modes of sense making, practical consciousness knowledge, truths and the general ontological ‘being in the world’ that social agents discursively produce.

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Dr. Ray Gordon is Associate Professor in Organization Behaviour, and the Associate Dean of Research at the School of Business, Technology and Sustainability at Bond University, QLD, Australia.