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	From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy in Netcentric and Quick Learning Organizations Exploring Future Public Management Practice Edited by: Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School Fred Thompson, Willamette University ORDER ONLINE Paperback $39.99 ISBN: 978-1-59311-605-7 Hardcover $73.95 ISBN: 978-1-59311-606-4 We use Paypal for online orders. Click here for more information about ordering from IAP. RELATED TITLES Budgeting and Financial Management for National Defense Budgeting and Financial Management in the Federal Government Co-Laboratories of Democracy: How People Harness Their Collective Wisdon to Create the Future International Public Financial Management Reform: Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges Managing the Electronic Government: From Vision to Practice The Legacy of June Pallot: Public Sector Financial Management Reform The Tax Revolt and State and Local Governments Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense Challenges in Volunteer Management RELATED CATEGORIES > Public & Non-profit Management 2007. A volume in the series: Research in Public Management. Series Editor(s): Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Search inside this book: This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations. We agree with Evans and Wurster and others who have argued that, in the future, knowledge-based productive relationships will be designed around fluid, teambased collaborative communities, either within organizations (i.e., deconstructed value chains), or in collaborative alliances such as those with "amorphous and permeable corporate boundaries characteristic of companies in the Silicon Valley" that is, deconstructed supply chains. In such relationships everyone can communicate richly with everyone else on the basis of shared standards and, like the Internet itself, these relationships will eliminate the need to channel information, thereby eliminating the trade-off between information bandwidth and connectivity. "The possibility (or the threat) of random access and information symmetry," they conclude, "will destroy all hierarchies, whether of logic or power." CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledments. Understanding Public Management as an International Academic Field. The Evolution of Public Management Reform Practice. Assessing Public Management Reform in an International Context: Performance Measurement, Managing for Results and Fiscal Devolution. Phases of Organizational Transformation and Restructuring. Changing Processes: What Works, What Does Not and Why? Implementing the Continuous Learning Cycle to Improve Strategic Planning and Organizational Productivity. Matching Institutional Structure to Strategic Planning and Positioning. Creating the Quick Learning Organization in Government. Moving From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy and Netcentricity: Enabling the Quick Learning Organization Using IT and Modern Technology. References. Index.