FRONT COVER -- REINVENTING HIERARCHY AND BUREAUCRACY - FROM THE BUREAU TO NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ADVISORY BOARD -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- BUREAUCRACY AND HIERARCHY - WHAT ELSE!? -- INTRODUCTION -- AN EXTREMELY BRIEF HISTORY OF NO CHANGE -- ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES AND THE CONTESTED TERRAIN OF HIERARCHY -- THE CHAPTERS OF THIS VOLUME -- REFERENCES -- SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF BUREAUCRACY -- 'LITTLE COGS': BUREAUCRACY AND THE CAREER IN BRITISH BANKING, C. 1900-1950 -- INTRODUCTION -- WEBER AND FOUCAULT -- BANK WORK AND ORGANISATION -- MR NOTMAN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE END OF BUREAUCRACY? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PAST OF BUREAUCRACY -- CHALLENGES TO BUREAUCRACY -- IMAGINED FUTURES: THE END OF BUREAUCRACY? -- POST-BUREAUCRACY -- BEING IN BUREAUCRACY AND BEYOND -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- BUREAUCRACY: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME (AGAIN)? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CRITICISM AGAINST BUREAUCRACY FOR BEING ANACHRONISTIC -- BUREAUCRACY AS HIERARCHY, RULES AND EXPERTISE -- THE DEMAND FOR FLEXIBILITY: SOME PROBLEMS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION II: ORGANISATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HIERARCHY -- UNDERSTANDING HIERARCHY IN CONTEMPORARY WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- ON HIERARCHY -- METHOD -- UNPACKING THE ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY -- UNDERSTANDING HIERARCHY IN CONTEMPORARY WORK -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE CULTURAL FANTASY OF HIERARCHY: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE DESIRE FOR SPIRITUAL PURITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TROUBLING PERSISTENCE OF BUREAUCRATIC HIERARCHY -- HIERARCHY ON TV: PARODY, CULTURE, AND POWER -- LAUGHING AT HIERARCHY -- THE REALITY OF HIERARCHY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CROSSING OF BOUNDARIES - SUBORDINATES' CHALLENGES TO ORGANISATIONAL HIERARCHY -- INTRODUCTION.

A MODEL OF SUPERIORS' AND SUBORDINATES' DYNAMIC HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIP -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- SECTION III: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON, AND ALTERNATIVES TO HIERARCHY -- THE BIRTH OF BIOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS AT WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- BIO-POWER AND BIOCRACY -- THE COMING BIOCRATIC WORKPLACE? -- TOWARDS A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOCRACY -- AGAINST BIOCRACY? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUPER FLAT: HIERARCHY, CULTURE AND DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZING -- BEGINNINGS -- FLAT CULTURE -- THE FEAR OF FLATNESS -- 2D VS. 3D -- FLATNESS AND HIERARCHY -- DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZING -- POST-HIERARCHY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.