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A chaos that worked : organizing Bletchley Park
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Grey, Christopher and Sturdy, Andrew (2010) A chaos that worked : organizing Bletchley Park. Public Policy and Administration, Vol.25 (No.1). pp. 47-66. doi:10.1177/0952076709347075 ISSN 0952-0767.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076709347075
Abstract
Drawing on a major historical study of the organization of Bletchley Park, the site of British and Allied codebreaking during the Second World War, this article shows that it was characterized by ‘chaos’ in terms of a lack of clear formal structures. It is argued that the success of Bletchley Park can be explained in terms of various factors including shared social capital of some employees, organizational hybridity, centralization, knowledge-sharing and organizational porosity. These factors may be understood to be the reasons why Bletchley Park was successful despite its organizational chaos, but the paper seeks to advance the stronger claim that it was successful because of its organizational chaos.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Public Policy and Administration | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0952-0767 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.25 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 47-66 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0952076709347075 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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