Decoding organization : Bletchley Park, codebreaking and organization studies / Christopher Grey
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: x, 322p, 23cmISBN: - 9781107005457
- Corporate culture -- Case studies
- Corporate culture -- England -- Bletchley (Buckinghamshire) -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters -- History
- Intelligence service -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Organization -- Case studies
- World War, 1939 -- 1945 -- Cryptography
- World War, 1939 -- 1945 -- Electronic intelligence -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939 -- 1945 -- England -- Bletchley (Buckinghamshire)
- World War, 1939 -- 1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
- 940.548641 GRE
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How was Bletchley Park made as an organization? How was signals intelligence constructed as a field? What was Bletchley Parkts culture and how was its work co-ordinate? 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.
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