Central Currents in Organization Studies I & II

Eight-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-0-7619-4726-4
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 3344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 3175 g

Reihe: Sage Library in Business and M

Offering a solid grounding in the historical and contemporary concerns of the field, Central Currents in Organization Studies I & II presents an innovative and thematically coherent selection of seminal articles. This eight-volume set provides an essential benchmark reference to any library concerned with the field of organization studies.
Presenting the most influential and provocative contributions to the field, this major work reviews the development of organization studies, including both mainstream and more innovative topics, leading through to recent debates on the status of organizations.

In addition to over 160 key original articles included in the collection, the each set opens with an introductory editorial essay by Stewart Clegg setting out the rationale behind the selections, and providing an illuminating discussion of the development of organization studies and its theoretical foundations.
Every discipline has the tradition of recording the central genealogical line of its development with work that comprises the great, the provocative and the field-defining writings. This major reference, easily organized to ensure comprehensive coverage of the essential tenets in the field, is the definitive resource for students, researchers and academics of organization studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clegg, Stewart R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMERGENT TENSIONS Introduction - S R Clegg PART ONE: EARLY HISTORIES - THE EMERGENCE OF FORMALLY RATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson What Do Bosses Do? - S A Marglin The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production Class Struggle and the Transformation of the Labor Process - D Stark From Asceticism to Administration of Wealth - A Kieser Medieval Monasteries and the Pitfalls of Rationalization The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism - A D Chandler The Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy - J Langton The Case of Josiah Wedgwood and the British Pottery Industry Scientific Management and Class Relations - P F Meiksins A Dissenting View Hierarchies and the American Ideals, 1900-1940 - P Miller and T O'Leary Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic - M F Guillen Architecture, Organization, and the Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical PART TWO: HUMAN RELATIONS IN FORMALLY RATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Mind in Everyday Affairs - C I Barnard An Examination into Logical and Non-logical Thought Processes The Effects of Social Environment - L J Henderson, T N Whitehead, and E Mayo The Hawthorne Studies - A Carey A Radical Critique Minding the Workers - E O'Connor The Meaning of 'Human' and 'Human Relations' in Elton Mayo Bureaucratic Structure and Personality - R K Merton Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy - A Gouldner A Convergence in Organization Theory - D J Hickson VOLUME TWO: LAYING THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS PART THREE: SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THEORIES OF MODERN ORGANIZATIONS Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (I) - T Parsons Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (II) - T Parsons Foundations for a Theory of Organizations - P Selznick The Concept of Bureaucracy - R H Hall An Empirical Assessment The Concept of Organization - E Bittner The Study of Organizations - R Mayntz PART FOUR: BUILDING ORGANIZATION THEORIES An Axiomatic Theory of Organizations - J Hage Modern Organization Theory - D S Pugh A Psychological and Sociological Study A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations - C Perrow Dimensions of Organization Structure - D S Pugh, D J Hickson, C R Hinings and C Turner The Context of Organizational Structures - D S Pugh, D J Hickson, C R Hinings and C Turner A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations - P M Blau Interdependence and Hierarchy in Organizations - P M Blau VOLUME THREE: DEBATING ORGANIZATION CONTINGENCIES PART FIVE: DEBATING CONTINGENCY THEORY Organizational Structures, Environment and Performance - J Child The Role of Strategic Choice Technology and Organization Structure - H E Aldrich A Re-examination of the Findings of the Aston Group Interorganizational Dependence - S Mindlin and H E Aldrich A Review of the Concept and a Re-examination of the Findings of the Aston Group Strategy and Structural Adjustment to Regain Fit and Performance - L Donaldson In Defence of Contingency Theory Structural Contingency Theory - J M Pennings A Reappraisal Organizational Alignment as Competitive Advantage - T C Powell Organizational Portfolio Theory - L Donaldson Performance-Driven Organizational Change PART SIX: THE ENVIRONMENTS OF ORGANIZATIONS The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments - F E Emery, and E L Trist Environments of Organizations - H E Aldrich and J Pfeffer The Population Ecology of Organizations - M T Hannan and J Freeman Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - M T Hannan and J Freeman The Two Ecologies - W G Astley Population and Community Perspectives on Organizational Evolution Organizational Ecology - Terry L Amburgey and Rao Hayagreeva Past, Present, and Future Directions Organizations in Changing Environments - J Allmendinger and J R Hackman The Case of E

Über Autor(innen)

Clegg, Stewart R.
Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.