"What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In Supercorporate, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal...

Wir brauchen Organisationen, die beweglicher sind. Starre Hierarchie, Bürokratie und Planung sind der Dynamik unserer Zeit nicht gewachsen. Doch wie können wir Freiräume schaffen, ohne uns zu verlieren? Wie finden wir die richtige Balance im Spannungsfeld zwischen Hierarchie und...

Part 1: Why Flat Structures Work at All -- Chapter 1: What does it mean to move towards a “flatter” structure? -- Chapter 2: What managers can effectively and efficiently delegate -- Chapter 3: Why would employees ever assume extra work in a decentralized organization? -- Part 2: What...

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Research Design and Methodology -- Case Descriptions of the studied Communities of Practice -- CoPs as Enabler of Organizational Knowledge Creation -- CoPs as Loci of Collective Lead Userness -- CoPs as an Enhancement of Organizations’ Innovative...