00000cmm a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611057297 Buklod 20230504003249.0 m go j cr |nu|||auu|a 110602s2011 xx u | eng d 978-90-481-9373-8 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00210203836 DLC DML eng DMLUC HD 58.8 V36 2011eb Van der Ven, Naud The shame of reason in organizational change a Levinassian perspective [electronic resource] Naud van der Ven ; translated by David Bevan, authors. Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011. 1 online resource (xx, 192 p.) IP-based subscription, access limited to within on campus computer network. Access via Electronic resources of the UPD University Library Website. This book examines this question from the perspective of Emmanuel Levinas? treatment of rationality. There are close similarities between the Levinassian description of rational thinking and the role of managers in organizations. Rationality makes the world controllable yet is totalitarian in character. Likewise, managers make their businesses controllable, yet their planning and schemes create a totalitarian straitjacket. Electronic reproduction. New York Springerlink c2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink. Organizational change. Rationalism. Electronic books. Bevan, David. SpringerLink (Online Service). Springer eBooks. Electronic Resource Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman via Springerlink. Click here to access http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-9373-8 FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource