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Grasp the important themes, perspectives, and theories of the field with CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY. This collection of the most enduring works in organization theory, written by distinguished theorists, describes what organization theory is, how it has developed, and how its development has coincided with events and changes in other fields.
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Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A Chronology of Organization Theory | p. 10 |
Classical Organization Theory | p. 31 |
Socrates Discovers Generic Management (1869) | p. 39 |
Of the Division of Labour (1776) | p. 41 |
Superintendent's Report (1856) | p. 46 |
The Engineer as Economist (1886) | p. 48 |
General Principles of Management (1916) | p. 52 |
The Principles of Scientific Management (1916) | p. 65 |
Bureaucracy (1922) | p. 77 |
Notes on the Theory of Organization (1937) | p. 83 |
Neoclassical Organization Theory | p. 92 |
The Economy of Incentives (1938) | p. 97 |
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality | p. 107 |
The Proverbs of Administration (1946) | p. 116 |
Foundations of the Theory of Organization (1948) | p. 129 |
A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives (1959) | p. 139 |
Human Resource Theory, or the Organizational Behavior Perspective | p. 149 |
The Giving of Orders (1926) | p. 156 |
The Hawthorne Experiments (1941) | p. 162 |
A Theory of Human Motivation (1943) | p. 171 |
The Human Side of Enterprise (1957) | p. 183 |
Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost (1971) | p. 189 |
ôModernö Structural Organization Theory | p. 197 |
Mechanistic and Organic Systems (1961) | p. 201 |
The Concept of Formal Organization (1962) | p. 206 |
Organizational Choice: Product versus Function (1968) | p. 211 |
The Five Basic Parts of the Organization (1979) | p. 222 |
Technology as a Contingency Factor (1998) | p. 234 |
Organizational Economics Theory | p. 243 |
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure (1976) | p. 247 |
The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach (1981) | p. 255 |
Learning from Organizational Economics (1986) | p. 263 |
Managing Business Transactions (1990) | p. 268 |
Power and Politics Organization Theory | p. 271 |
Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making (1981) | p. 277 |
Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy (1915/1962) | p. 291 |
The Bases of Social Power (1959) | p. 298 |
The Power of Power (1966) | p. 307 |
Power Failure in Management Circuits (1979) | p. 320 |
The Power Game and the Players (1983) | p. 330 |
Theories of Organizational Culture and Change | p. 338 |
The Concept of Organizational Culture: Why Bother? (2004) | p. 349 |
Organizational Culture: Pieces of the Puzzle (2002) | p. 361 |
The Z Organization | p. 383 |
Appreciative Inquiry (2005) | p. 395 |
Theories of Organizations and Environments | p. 401 |
Organizations and the System Concept (1966) | p. 407 |
Organizations in Action (1967) | p. 419 |
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony (1977) | p. 433 |
External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (1978) | p. 449 |
Demography of Corporations and Industries (2000) | p. 461 |
Theories of Organizations and Society | p. 473 |
Gendering Organizational Theory (1992) | p. 480 |
Creating the Multicultural Organization: The Challenge of Managing Diversity (2001) | p. 489 |
Corporate Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance (1989) | p. 496 |
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theory of the Firm Perspective (2001) | p. 513 |
Social Entrepreneurship (2006) | p. 523 |
Social Enterprise: Beyond Economic Outcomes and Individual Returns (2006) | p. 528 |
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