Overview
- Combines researchers from different theoretical backgrounds with an empirical view of the most diverse phenomena of agility in different institutional settings
- Brings established researchers into dialogue with the fresh, critical view of early career scholars
- Goes beyond summarising discourses or management fads and look at actual organisational change and changes in work
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agility on the Organizational Level
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Back Matter
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About this book
While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective.The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or whether it is in fact a genuine organizational and institutional strategy that is meant to better deal with complexity and volatility.
The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agility at the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and by bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the project stimulates a comparative discussion.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sabine Pfeiffer holds the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany.
Manuel Nicklich works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Stefan Sauer works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Agile Imperative
Book Subtitle: Teams, Organizations and Society under Reconstruction?
Editors: Sabine Pfeiffer, Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73994-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73993-5Published: 31 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73996-6Published: 18 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73994-2Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Social Sciences, general, Management