Beyond Organizational Change: Structure, Discourse and Power in Uk Financial Services

Morgan and Sturdy (organizational behavior, U. of Warwick, UK and human resource management, U. of Bath, UK) describe and evaluate financial organizational change in the UK since the 1980s. The volume combines a broad social structural perspective, drawing on new institutionalism, with a detailed account of how actors within and outside organizations adopt and reconstruct new "strategic" discourses such as marketing, information technology, and human relations management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)