On fads, fashions, and follies of flat organizing and why managers still matter

Maciej Workiewicz ()
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Maciej Workiewicz: ESSEC Business School

Journal of Organization Design, 2023, vol. 12, issue 1, 47-49

Abstract: Abstract In their recent book Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company, Foss and Klein defend management and managers and discuss the value and limits of traditional hierarchies. In this review, I discuss the key ideas presented in the book and reflect on the broader discussion in the literature on non-hierarchical forms of organizing and how this book fits in the overall debate in the field.

Keywords: Book review; Bossless; Managers; Hierarchy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s41469-023-00139-9

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