Organizations in Context

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-24405-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This comprehensive textbook offers an up-to-date account of how organizations function in a rapidly changing world. Designed as a practical and accessible guide, it combines theoretical insights with real-world applications while presenting organizations as complex social systems shaped by people, culture, power, and context.

It introduces key questions such as:

• What are organizations and why do they exist?
• How do they define goals and strategies?
• How are they structured and led?
• How do people, culture, and identity shape organizational life?
• How do organizations interact with their environments?

Chapters feature a range of thoughtfully designed learning tools, such as case studies, reflection boxes, in-depth features, and paradox boxes that encourage students to explore tensions, dilemmas, and competing perspectives in organizational life. Readers benefit from diverse examples drawn from global contexts and sustained attention to contemporary challenges such as digitalization, sustainability, legitimacy, and organizational change.

This textbook provides a strong foundation in organization theory and organizational behavior while developing the analytical and critical skills needed to understand and engage with contemporary organizations. Comprehensive online resources, including PowerPoint slides, flashcards and quizzes, are available at www.routledge.com/cw/skyttermoen.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clegg, Stewart

Skyttermoen, Torgeir

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Organizational Understanding? 2. Organizations: What – How – Why 3. What Are Organizations For? Purpose, Goals, Strategy 4. Organizational Structures and Formal Organization 5. People in Organizations: Understanding Organizational Behaviour 6. Organizational Culture and Identity – The Depth of People's Common Understanding 7. Power, Decisions and Conflicts in Organizations 8. Interaction: Communication, Teams and the Structures of Working Life 9. Leadership in Context 10. Transition: Learning, Innovation and Organizational Change 11. Organizations in Interaction with Stakeholders and the Environment 12. From Organizational Understanding to Critical Insights – Organizations on the Move 13. From Design to Action – Organizations in Action

Über Autor(innen)

Stewart Clegg is Professor in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute of Project Leadership at the University of Sydney, Australia, Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney Business School, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.

Torgeir Skyttermoen is Professor of Organization and Leadership at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, with over 25 years’ experience teaching in the field. He received the Norwegian Ministry of Education’s National Quality Award for Teaching.