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Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event - Softcover

Chen, Katherine K.

 
9780226102382: Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226102386 ISBN 13: 9780226102382
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun.

Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man’s organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Katherine K. Chen is assistant professor of sociology at The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.


Katherine K. Chen is assistant professor of sociology at The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226102386
ISBN 13 
9780226102382
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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