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1. Hierarchy and Organisation

   Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems

   By Thomas Diefenbach

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book...

   To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Management and the Dominance of Managers

   By Thomas Diefenbach

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Managers are powerful. The organizations of our time are in essence managerial organizations, even our societies are managerial societies. This book looks behind the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge