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Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
Christopher Grey
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Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order-a hidden architecture within our organizations. Drawing on previously overlooked texts, as well as well-known classics, Jana Costas and Christopher Grey identify three forms of secrecy: formal secrecy, as we see in the case of trade and state secrets based on law and regulation; informal secrecy based on networks and trust; and public ... Read more
Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order-a hidden architecture within our organizations. Drawing on previously overlooked texts, as well as well-known classics, Jana Costas and Christopher Grey identify three forms of secrecy: formal secrecy, as we see in the case of trade and state secrets based on law and regulation; informal secrecy based on networks and trust; and public ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford Business Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804798143
SKU
V9780804798143
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About Christopher Grey
Jana Costas is Professor of People, Work and Management at the European University Viadrina, Germany. Christopher Grey is Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and Visiting Professor at Universite Paris-Dauphine. He is the author of A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations (2012) and Decoding Organization (2013).
Reviews for Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
There are nice echoes of post-war US interactionist sociology in the tone of this book, particularly in its refusal to engage in any particular grand or contemporary theorising...The idea of transparency in organizing, laudable in many ways, belies the fact that the control of information, and hence the production of secrecy, is constitutive of formal organization. Of course secrecy can ... Read more