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Decoding organization : Bletchley Park, codebreaking and organization studies

Grey, Christopher, 1964-

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\"How was Bletchley Park made as an organization? How was signals intelligence constructed as a field? What was Bletchley Park's culture and how was its work co-ordinated? Bletchley Park was not just the home of geniuses such as Alan Turing, it was also the workplace of thousands of other people, mostly women, and their organization was a key component in the cracking of Enigma. Challenging many popular perceptions, this book examines the hitherto unexamined complexities of how 10,000 people were brought together in complete secrecy during World War II to work on ciphers. Unlike most organizational studies, this book decodes, rather than encodes, the processes of organization and examines the structures, cultures and the work itself of Bletchley Park using archive and oral history sources. Organization theorists, intelligence historians and general readers alike will find in this book a challenge to their preconceptions of both Bletchley Park and organizational analysis\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters History. / World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography. / World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Great Britain. / World War, 1939-1945 Electronic intelligence Great Britain. / Intelligence service Social aspects Great Britain History 20th century. / World War, 1939-1945 England Bletchley (Buckinghamshire) / Corporate culture England Bletchley (Buckinghamshire) History 20th century. / Organization Case studies. / Corporate culture Case studies. / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior. / Bletchley (Buckinghamshire, England) History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781107005457, 1107005450

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D810.C88 G74 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE