Download or read book Organization Theory and Class Analysis written by Stewart R. Clegg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Analysis of Organizations written by Catherine Casey and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Catherine Casey has written an excellent book that provides a lucid and comprehensive critical analysis of organizations....[It] extends in reach and relevance beyond the specific field of organization studies and the sociology of organizations to encompass broader intellectual developments that have had a significant impact on contemporary sociology and cultural studies′ - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth `I anticipate that it will prove to be an attractive book in organization studies, industrial sociology and general sociology. I am sure that this will be a book that will make a major impact′ - Mike Reed, Professor of Organization Theory, Lancaster University In this comprehensive and scholarly book, the essential critical strands in organizational analysis are explained. It examines how central traditions have realigned in relation to the challenge of postmodernism and the new reflexive turn in organizational studies. Judicious, innovative and written with the needs of students in mind, this book offers a renewed and revitalized critical accent in organization studies - one that focuses on existing and emerging social tendencies, contestations and struggles. It will be essential reading for senior students of organization studies and sociology.
Download or read book The Logic of Organizations written by Bengt Abrahamsson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and challenging. The Logic of Organizations explores organizational theory by focusing on the genesis of organizations and the conditions for their continued existence. Abrahamsson draws upon the classic theories of Marx, Weber, and Michels, as well as more contemporary developments in organizational theory, to present his unique theory - that organizations are deliberately designed social structures established by individuals, groups, or classes in order to implement specific goals. To effectively support his argument, the author concentrates on three critical areas of organizations: how to make organizations more efficient and more representative of the interests and objectives of their founders, and how to relieve the problems of bureaucracy, namely administrative groups working toward their own goals and objectives rather than those of the organization.
Download or read book Organization Theory written by Tuomo Peltonen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of the history and development of organization theory has recently made advances through work emerging on the history of management thought as well as through the institutionalization of critical approaches to organizations and organizational knowledge. This book provides a new reading of the historical development of organization.
Download or read book In Defence of Organisation Theory written by Lex Donaldson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-09-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, clear survey and defence of organizational theory. That theory and its associated research has in recent years become subject to strong criticism. Rival perspectives on organizations have been put forward. One of these stresses that organizations need to be understood as made up of individual people. Another asserts the need to see organizations as part of the conflicts and radical struggles in society. These alternative views have led to a host of critiques of conventional organization studies. It is attacked as being tautological, philosophically naive, ideological, and managerially biased. To date there has been no substantial reply to these criticisms by a protagonist of organization theory. This volume uniquely fills that gap. In part one the author examines and rebuts each of the major lines of criticism. In part two the rival approaches suggested by the critics are themselves subjected to an analysis of their limitations. The book concludes with a new model of organizational design which provides a synthesis of previous research.
Download or read book Organization Theory written by William G. Scott and published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This book was released on 1976 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations written by John Hassard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume challenge popular assumptions about organizations in order to redirect the ways in which organizational research is conceived and executed.
Download or read book Organizations written by Arthur G. Bedeian and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organization Theory written by David Jaffee and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization Theory: Tension and Changeprovides the most current and concise analysis of the development and evolution of organizational theories, forms, and practices, from the rise of the factory system to the emergence of the virtual global organization. Using a wide variety of examples and applications from private- and public-sector organizations, the text emphasizes the tensions, contradictions, and paradoxes inherent in all organizational arrangements. In addition to the classic themes such as scientific management, human relations, rational bureaucratic models, and environmental models, the book explores emerging organizational forms based on lean and flexible production, post-bureaucracy, alliancess, and networks, virtual organization and information technologies, corporate cultures, learning organizations, transnational commodity chains, and post-modernism.
Download or read book Organizations and Organization Theory written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by Boston : Pitman. This book was released on 1982 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of behavioural sciences social theories concerning organization behaviour - reviews and compares three major theoretical perspectives (purposive or goal directed, externally constrained, and social constructionist) at the level of individual, group and organization behaviour, with reference to relevant social research; considers the practical application of these theories in office job design and personnel management. Bibliography.
Download or read book Theory and Method in Organization Studies written by Antonio Strati and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-05-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to theory and method, students of organization will find a comprehensive view of the key theories in their field, combined with a toolkit of guidelines linking these to the different methods available for analyzing and interpreting organizational life. Distinguishing `the external society' and the `internal society', Antonio Strati sheds light on the different contexts that shape organizational life and the different levels of analysis that may be used. By showing the many levels at which organizations function and can be understood this book provides an invaluable introduction to analysis and research for advanced students. Recent concepts such as `the organization as hypertext'; `communities of practi
Download or read book Sociology and Organization Theory written by John Hassard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been claimed that organization theory is in a state of crisis. This book traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organization studies from its foundations to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis offers general support for the "sociology-in-crisis" thesis, but takes issue with one of its main propositions, that paradigms are incommensurable. It is argued that paradigms are porous rather than hermetic phenomena, a fact that has profound implications for the theory building process.
Download or read book Organization and Bureaucracy written by T.A.J. Nicholson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Journal of Sociology says of this book "Mouzelis knows and handles the literature well and accurately brings the reader up to the early sixties. A summarizer, synthesizer, and historian of modern theories, he serves his novice well. The more initiated student of formal organizations will appreciate the critiques of his favorite theorists: Mouzelis cuts clean and bold. Along with order, he does add critical insight to his borrowed materials."This book is a carefully integrated and very straightforward guide to the labyrinth of theory on organizational phenomena, and surveys the most important approaches to the study of organizations and the manner in which these approaches are interrelated. The author's interest is in showing the successive stages of theory generation and development in the two major traditions of thought on this subject, thereby providing a coherent overview of the field, a method for systematically investigating it, and an unusually broadening supplement to the standard treatment of organizations in undergraduate and graduate courses.The author discusses the writings of such theorists as Marx, Weber, and Michels who, from a very wide perspective, tried to assess the impact of large-scale bureaucracy on the power structure of modern society. He also examines the other tradition of organizational writings that starts with Taylor and the movement of scientific management. Finally, an analysis is made of recent theoretical trends that indicate a certain convergence of the bureaucracy and the managerial lines of thought.In emphasizing the conceptual frameworks that underlie organization theory and in showing the dynamics of theory progression, the author provides students with invaluable assistance in understanding the levels of theoretical analysis, the variables to be taken into consideration, and the manner in which these variables may be accounted for in a systematic manner.
Download or read book Studying Organization written by Stewart R Clegg and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the needs of lecturers, the acclaimed Handbook of Organization Studies has been made available as two major paperback textbooks. In this, the first of a two-volume paperback edition of the landmark Handbook of Organization Studies, editors Stewart Clegg and Cynthia Hardy survey the field of organization studies. Studying Organization is an ideal textbook around which to build courses on organization theory and research methodology. Central to the enterprise has been a concern to reflect and honour the manifest diversity of the field, including recognition of the extent to which the very notion of a single field of organization studies is debated. Part One
Download or read book The Theory of Power and Organization RLE Organizations written by Stewart Clegg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociology, political science, philosophy and organization theory. The book raises and answers some of the issues which are important in the construction of a theoretical apparatus for the analysis of power and at the same time it proposes an alternative concept of organization, centred around the themes of power and control.
Download or read book Organization Theory Meets Strategy written by Giada Di Stefano and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization Theory Meets Strategy brings together researchers who work at the intersection of Organization Theory and Strategy to fuel cutting edge discussions around common questions and challenges faced by researchers working in this area.
Download or read book Classics of Organization Theory written by Jay M. Shafritz and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the most important works in organization theory, as written by the most influential authors in the field. These are the works of the "masters"-and, having withstood the test of time, the ideas presented by each of the works are commonly referenced in the study of organizational theory. This text is designed to help students learn about, understand, and appreciate key themes and perspectives in the field. The authors begin the text by describing what organization theory is, how it has developed, and how its development has coincided with developments in other fields. Each chapter focuses on one major perspective of organization theory, helping students absorb these concepts before moving onto new ones.
