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Modernism and Neo-Modernism

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In the following chapters, the most relevant theories of organization will be outlined in their essential features, which can be divided into three main phases: the modernist phase, with the classical school; the neoclassical school of the post-Ford period; and finally the more modern and interdisciplinary approach which is composed of the theories of knowledge management and learning organization. The various approaches proposed can be considered as attempts to respond to a basic and common problem that has always concerned every organization and which is embodied in the choice of organizational variables on which to intervene in order to do a structural change and improve the levels of performance.

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Valeri, M. (2021). Modernism and Neo-Modernism. In: Organizational Studies. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87148-2_4

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