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Reflections on power

1 Apr 2014

I have been re-reading George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which I refer to in the book (pp.71-2). This I think is a particularly incisive fictionalization of organization, more particularly totalitarian political organization, and I suppose that no novel, except perhaps Kafka’s The Trial, has so insinuated itself into popular consciousness of ‘organization theory’. The theme of totalitarianism is a tantalising one when thinking about organizations, because such arrangements seem to
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Authors

Chris Grey

Length
926 words
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