Author : Henry L. Tosi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412924995
Includes excerpts from seminal works and summaries of key theoretical models that form the basis of the field of organization theory.
Author : Linda L. Putnam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135619808
This volume explores the concept of communication as it applies to organizational theory. Bringing together multiple voices, it focuses on communication’s role in the constitution of organization. Editors Linda L. Putnam and Anne Maydan Nicotera have assembled an all-star cast of contributors, each providing a distinctive voice and perspective. The contents of this volume compare and contrast approaches to the notion that communication constitutes organization. Chapters also examine the ways that those processes produce patterns that endure over time and that constitute the organization as a whole. This collection bridges different disciplines and serves a vital role in developing dimensions, characteristics, and relationships among concepts that address how communication constitutes organization. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in organizational communication, organizational studies, management, sociology, social collectives, and organizational psychology and behavior.
Author : Lex Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1995-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521479172
This book offers a critique of recent developments in the study of organizational structure in the USA. There has been a profusion of new paradigms offered in the USA and this has fragmented the field. Many of these paradigms share an anti-management quality, painting managers in an increasingly negative light. This book examines five major, contemporary US organizational theories: population-ecology, institutional, resource dependence, agency and transaction cost economics. Each of these theories and their attendant research is critically examined and severe problems are identified in either theoretical coherence or empirical validity. Lex Donaldson argues that it is possible to reintegrate the field by taking structural contingency theory as the core theory and adding on to it selective propositions from the newer paradigms. He also offers suggestions for needed reforms in the US academic cultural and institutional system.
Author : Sandi Parkes Pershing
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1483320960
Applying organization theory to public and governance organizations, Organization Theory and Governance for the 21st Century presents readers with a conscious and thoughtful awareness of the history and evolving nature of organizations. Authors Sandra Parkes Pershing and Eric Austin address emerging theories rarely touched upon in competing titles, and take a deeper look into assumed theories to give the student a chance to critically consider the consequences these embedded assumptions have for organizational practice. By providing a consistent theoretical grounding and a clear focus on post-traditionalist thinking, the book gives students the background they need to analyze organizational settings and take effective action in the unique setting of contemporary governance.
Author : Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199275250
2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken? What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what forms do its knowledge claims take as they are put forward for public adoption? 3) How have certain well-known controversies in organization theory, such as for example, the structure/agency dilemma, the study of organizational culture, the different modes of explanation, the micro/macro controversy, and the differnet explanations produced by organizational economists and sociologists, been dealt with? 4) How, and in what ways, is knowledge generated in organization theory related to action? What features must organization theory knowledge have in order to be actionable, and of relevance to the world 'out there'? How have ethical concerns been taken into account in organization theory? 5) What is the future of organization theory? What direction should the field take? What must change in the way research is conducted and key theoretical terms are conceptualized so that organization theory enhances its capacity to generate valid and relevant knowledge?
Author : Udo Staber
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 144629157X
Understanding Organizations: Theories and Images introduces students to the key principles of understanding, designing, and managing organizations in an accessible and practical way. The book provides a conceptual toolkit containing the essential models, theories and concepts needed for working in, managing and evaluating organizations. Key Features: Insightful anecdotes discuss how for- and not-for profit organizations fit within our current society from a social and economic perspective. Theoretical framework and multi-perspective approach focuses on economics, institutionalism and evolution theory highlighting the relationship between organizations, employees and the broader society. Research-focused approach analyses organizational phenomena in light of recent studies. This textbook is ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates studying general management, organizational theory, organizational design, and organizational sociology.
Author : Raymond E. Miles
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Mary Zey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803951365
Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational economic theories which have emerged in the past decade and gained center stage in current organizational analysis.
Author : Nicos P. Mouzelis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415176828
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Cary L. Cooper
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191584703
During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking. The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen accordingly in terms of increased sickness absence, labour turnover, burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. This book, in one volume, provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field. It is a guide to identifying the sources of pressures in jobs and the workplace so that we may be able to intervene to change and manage the growing problem of organizational stress.
