TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Keith
AU  - Price,Ilfryn
TI  - Managing organizational ecologies: space, management and organizations 
T2  - Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology
SN  - 9780203117231 (ebook)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Facility management
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Work environment
KW  - Office layout
KW  - Building layout
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Development economics & emerging economies
KW  - thema
KW  - Business & Management
KW  - Business ethics & social responsibility
KW  - Business & the environment; green' approaches to business
KW  - Personnel & human resources management
KW  - Management of real estate, property & plant
KW  - Outsourcing
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This volume reminds facilities management of its roots, presenting evidence of facilities management success stories that engage the wider objectives of the organizations they serve; The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the provision of various services essential to the operation of particular buildings. This volume redresses that imbalance to remind Facilities Management of its roots, presenting evidence of Facilities Management success stories that engage the wider objectives of the organizations they serve, and engaging students, scholars and critical practitioners of general management with an appreciation of the power and influence of physical space and its place in the theory and practice of organizations. This book includes management perspectives from outside the field to ensure that the issues raised are seen in an organizational and management context, informing debate within the Facilities Management fraternity. It draws on human ecology and the perspective of the firm as, itself, an intra-organizational ecology of social constructs. The ecology of a firm is not restricted to the firm's boundaries. It extends to wider relationships between the firm and its stakeholders including, in an age of outsourced building services, the Facilities Management supply chain. This volume offers arguments and evidence that managing such constructs is a key role for Facilities Management and an important participant in the provision of truly usable spaces
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