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Post bureaucracy and the politics
of forgetting
The management of change at the BBC,
1991-2002
Martin Harris
University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and
Victoria Wegg-Prosser
Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the imputed “fall” and subsequent
“reinvention” of the BBC during the 1990s, relating a managerialist “politics of forgetting” to the
broader ideological narratives of “the post bureaucratic turn”.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide range of primary and secondary
sources, combining case study analysis with long-term historical perspectives on organisational change.
Findings – The paper shows the ways in which public sector professionals contested “post
bureaucratic” pressures for marketisation and organisational disaggregation.
Originality/value – The paper shows the ways in which large-scale technological, regulatory and
organisational change was......

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Approximate Pages: 28 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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