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[ecrea] New book : Emmanuelle Avril, Christine Zumello (eds), New Technologies, ...

Wed Jun 12 15:42:44 GMT 2013



From : Emmanuelle AVRIL <(emmanuelle.avril /at/ wanadoo.fr)>

Dear Colleagues,

This message to announce the publication of the following book:

Emmanuelle Avril, Christine Zumello (eds), /New Technologies, Organizational Change and Governance/, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=629348)

Description:

The advent of globalisation and the continued development of new information technology has created an environment in which the one certainty for organisations is that they cannot cling to archaic, centralised and hierarchical models. The increased fluidity and speed of the global environment call for horizontal networked structures, where decisions are achieved through collaborative mechanisms, rather than pyramidal models. New processes have been emerging, in particular the practices of deliberative and participatory governance, with increased stakeholder and citizen inclusion and participation, greater use and reliance on networks of organisations, and efforts to resolve conflict through dialogue. New forms of organizations, networks, coalitions and partnerships, as well as the promises of open sourcing and the collaborative horizontal model point towards a new governance apparatus in which relationship-based patterns can project and protect a human dimension in this digital world. This book will prove invaluable to all those who are interested in participatory governance and organisational change.

Reviews:

"The Internet is tied to initiatives aimed at democratizing governance in order to empower organizations in a post-bureaucratic era. This volume brings together a complementary array of international scholars to provide a theoretically rich understanding of the potential of new paradigms and practices. This is must reading for anyone with a serious interest in the structures and dynamics of organizations." - William Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK

"This is a valuable contribution on an issue that is only going to get more and more important as time goes on. It makes for a thought-provoking, wide-ranging, and insightful exploration of the ways in which traditional political organization and governance has been both dynamized and disrupted by new technologies and the great expectations which they have helped to create." - Tim Bale, Professor and Chair in Politics, School of Politics and International Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Contents:

List of Illustrations and tables
List of contributors
Note on Editors


Introduction: Towards Organizational Democracy? Convergence and Divergence in Models of Economic and Political Governance; Emmanuelle Avril and Christine Zumello


PART I: NEW PATHS OF GOVERNANCE
1. Arts Council England in the 2000s: Towards Digital Era Governance?; Cécile Doustaly 2. London Transport/Transport for London: The Unstable Mix of Politics, Management and Public Service Values; Roseline Théron 3. Financial Institutions and Political Parties in the USA: the Myth of Direct Access; Christine Zumello 4. From Campaign Finance to Obamacare.The Supreme Court Dis-empowering Voters and Parties: the Law of Intended Consequences?; Vincent Michelot


PART II:  BREAKING ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES
5. New Challenges of Intra-party Democracy: Grassroots Activists, Instant Members and Cyber-militants; Susan Scarrow 6. From Grassroots to Netroots? The Evolution of Decision-Making in the British Labour Party; Emmanuelle Avril 7. The Scottish National Party and Organizational Democratisation; Nathalie Duclos
8. New Media, New Organizations, New Politics; James Morone
9. The Evolution of UK Parties in the Web 2.0 and Post-spin Era; Géraldine Castel


PART III: EMERGING PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
10. The Rise of Machines, the Fall of Organizations; Régine Hollander
11. Centralizing and Decentralizing Effects of Internet Technologies within the Citizen Trade Campaign Network; Jean-Baptiste Velut 12. Towards Leaderless Organizations? The Impact of New Technology on Leadership and Learning; Toby Coop 13. Political Marketing and Governance: Moving Towards the Political Partnership Model of Organization?; Jennifer Lees-Marshment

Concluding Remarks


Index




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