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099    WORLD WIDE WEB|aE-BOOK|aTAYLOR&FRANCIS 
100 1  Åkerström, Malin,|eauthor. 
245 10 Hidden attractions of administration :|bthe peculiar 
       appeal of meetings and documents /|cMalin Åkerström, 
       Katarina Jacobsson, Erika Andersson Cederholm and David 
       Wästerfors. 
250    First Edition. 
263    2105 
264  1 New York :|bRoutledge,|c2021. 
264  4 |c© 2021. 
300    1 online resource. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 0  Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions 
       and Organisations 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Eigendynamik -- The administration society -- Seductive 
       gatherings -- Sneaky work and aways -- A spark of magic --
       Beauty and boost -- Spirals of meetings and documents -- 
       Dramatizing administrative skills -- Muddy transparency --
       The devotion to teaching -- Magic, emotions and morality. 
520    "This book argues that the expansion of administrative 
       activities in today's working life is driven not only by 
       pressure from above, but also from below. The authors 
       examine the inner dynamics of people-processing 
       organizations - those formally working for clients, 
       patients, or students - to uncover the hidden attractions 
       of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints 
       and laments about 'too many meetings' or 'too much 
       paperwork'. There is something appealing to those 
       compelled to participate in today's constantly multiplying
       and expanding administration that defies popular framings 
       of it as merely pressure from above. Hidden Attractions of
       Administration shows in detail the emotional 
       attractiveness, moral conflicts, and almost magical 
       features that administrative tasks often entail in today's
       organizations, supported by an ethnographic study 
       consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and 
       participant observations from 10 organizational settings 
       and contexts across Sweden. The authors also question and 
       complement explanations in administration-related research
       that have previously been taken for granted, arguing that 
       it is a simplification to attribute all aspects of the 
       change to New Public Management and instead taking into 
       account what the classic sociologist Georg Simmel called 
       an Eigendynamik: a self-reinforcing tendency that, under 
       certain circumstances, needs only a nudge in an 
       administrative direction to get going. By applying 
       ethnography to issues of bureaucratization and meeting 
       cultures and by drawing on findings in emotional sociology
       and social anthropology, this volume contributes to both 
       the sociology of work and the study of human service 
       organizations and will appeal to scholars and students 
       working across both areas"--|cProvided by publisher. 
545 0  Malin Åkerstrm̲ is a professor of sociology in the 
       Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. Katarina
       Jacobsson is a professor of social work in the School of 
       Social Work, Lund University, Sweden. Erika Andersson 
       Cederholm is an associate professor in the Department of 
       Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, 
       Sweden. David Ws̃terfors is aprofessor of sociology in the
       Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. 
588    Description based on print version record and CIP data 
       provided by publisher; resource not viewed. 
650  0 Ethnology|xFieldwork|zSweden. 
650  0 Human services|zSweden|xAdministration. 
650  0 Social work administration|zSweden. 
650  0 Health services administration|zSweden. 
650  0 Police administration|zSweden. 
650  0 Public institutions|zSweden. 
650  0 Meetings. 
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650  7 Health services administration.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00953286 
650  7 Human services|xAdministration.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00963363 
650  7 Meetings.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01015496 
650  7 Police administration.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01068547 
650  7 Public institutions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01082505 
650  7 Social work administration.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01123443 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.|2bisacsh 
651  7 Sweden.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204537 
700 1  Jacobsson, Katarina,|eauthor. 
700 1  Andersson Cederholm, Erika,|d1965-|eauthor. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aÅkerström, Malin.|tHidden attractions of
       administration|bFirst Edition.|dNew York : Routledge, 
       2021.|z9780367622275|w(DLC)  2020054830 
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