How Adhocracies Fit into the Future of WorkClay Spinuzziclay.spinuzzi@mail.utexas.eduTwitter: @spinuzzispinuzzi.blogspot.com

1980

1980

“man will find himself [sic] liberated, a stranger in a new free-form world of kinetic

organizations. In this alien landscape, his position will be constantly changing, fluid, and varied. And his organizational ties, like his ties

with things, places, and people, will turn over at a frenetic and ever-accelerating pace.”

“managers are losing their monopoly on decision-making”

Adhocracies

1970, p.125, 140

“Soon we may see the rise of movements demanding that all work that can be done at home be done at home. Many workers will

insist on that option as a right.”

“Put the computer in people’s homes, and they no longer need to huddle. Third Wave

white-collar work ... will not require 100 percent of the work force to be concentrated

in the workshop.”

1980, p.203; 199

“We might also see groups of home-workers organize themselves into small companies to

contract for their services, or, for that matter, unite in cooperatives that jointly own the machines. All sorts of new relationships and organizational forms become possible.”

“neighborhood work centers”

“dispersed work centers”

1980, p.205; 200; 205

A third space

businessBUSINESS

“the new production system relies on a combination of strategic alliances and ad hoc cooperation projects between corporations,

decentralized units of each major corporation, and networks of small and medium enterprises connecting among themselves and/or with large

corporations or networks of corporations.”

Castells 2000, p.96

Adhocraciesn

“The individualization of working arrangements, the multi-location of the activity, and the ability to network all these activities around the individual

worker, usher in a new urban space, the space of endless mobility, a space made

of flows of information and communication, ultimately managed with

the Internet.”

Castells 2003, p.234

A new urban space

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