Buch, Englisch, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1256 g
Buch, Englisch, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1256 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-827241-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This comprehensive reference work summarizes and reinterprets research, and suggests applications got the design of organizations. Scholars and professionals, from the United States, Europe, and other countries, present the contributions to organization theory of management science, political science, economics, sociology, systems engineering, psychology, history, and anthropology. The chapters draw examples from a large number of diverse industries and governmental activities, and they discuss design alternatives which should prove valuable for planning, redesign, and the continuing operations of organizations.
Volume 1 analyzes the effects of environments on organizations, and discusses the adaptive capabilities of organizations such as planning, forecasting, and innovation. Contributors examine the effects of change, particularly changes in technologies and in legal and political systems.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Preface
- Designing and Understanding Organizations
- Part A: Organizations' Adaptive Capabilities
- 1: Bo Hedberg: How Organizations Learn and Unlearn
- 2: John Child and Alfred Kieser: Development of Organizations Over Time
- 3: Richard A. Peterson: Entrepreneurship and Organization
- 4: John R. Kimberly: Managerial Innovation
- 5: Andrew P. Sage: Designs for Optimal Information Filters
- 6: Sypros Makridakis and Steven C. Wheelwright: Forecasting an Organization's Futures
- 7: Ronald N. Taylor and Ilan Vertinsky: Experimenting with Organizational Behavior
- 8: Malcolm Warner: Organizational Experiments and Social Innovations
- Part B: The Implications of Societal Environments
- 9: Anthony Champagne, Martin Neef, and Stuart Nagel: Laws, Organizations, and the Judiciary
- 10: Michael Moch and Stanley E. Seashore: How Norms Affect Behaviors in and of Corporations
- 11: Richard L. Morrill: How Migration and Regional Development Affect Organizations
- 12: Robert G. Hawkins and Ingo Walter: Planning Multinational Operations
- 13: T. Y. Shen: Technology and Organizational Economics
- 14: Leslie L. Roos, Jr. and Frederick A. Starke: Organizational Roles
- 15: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt: Interactions Between Organizations and Societal Stratification
- 16: Luther P. Gerlach and Gary B. Palmer: Adaption Through Evolving Interdependence
- Part C: Interactions in Interorganizational Networks
- 17: Howard Aldrich and David A. Whetten: Organization-Sets, Action-Sets, and Networks: Making the Most of Simplicity
- 18: Pradip N. Khandwalla: Properties of Competing Organizations
- 19: Johannes M. Pennings: Strategically Interdependent Organizations
- 20: Ira Sharkansky: Intergovernmental Relations
- 21: Linda S. Gottfredson and Paul E. White: Interorganizational Agreements
- 22: Robert Chatov: Cooperation Between Government and Business
- 23: Les Metcalfe: Designing Precarious Partnerships
