Central Currents in Organization Studies I: Frameworks and Applications

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-7619-7450-5
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 1680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 3166 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 Volumes 1-4 presents an innovative and thematically coherent selection of seminal articles. This four-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 70 key original articles included in the collection, the 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. § Volume One: Historical Perspectives and Emergent Tensions looks at the early history of organization theory, including the capitalist versus religious roots of modern organizations and the historically contested reasons for the emergence of modern organizations. It also addresses the emergent tensions in the field as it begins to become a specialist area of study. § Volume Two: The Foundations, presents formal theories of modern organizations, addressing the significant founding attempts to have an empirically based science of organizations, which built on the work of the German sociologist, Max Weber. This volume then addresses the landmark studies that began to build systematic foundations for Organization Theory based on empirical analysis, with the work of Hage, Perrow, Pugh and Blau. § Volume Three: Debating Organization Contingencies, addresses the central theories of organization, beginning with Contingency Theory, an approach which has become the mainstream of organization theory scholarship, but which has also attracted criticisms from rival perspectives. Those involved in the debate include Child, Mindlin and Aldrich, Donaldson, Pennings, and Powell. The second part of this volume, 'The Environments of Organizations', considers seminal work that stressed specific contingencies as determinate factors in how organization structuring was addressed, involving the work of Trist and Bamforth, Hickson, Pugh and Pheysey, Child and Mansfield, Aldrich, Ford and Slocum. § Volume Four: Institutions and Economics, first addresses the distinct institutional approaches that were inspired by the work of Selznick on Weber, which had formed foundations forty years earlier. This volume includes work by Hirsch, Meyer and Rowan, DiMaggio, Powell, Ranson and Hinings, Granovetter, Scott and Suchman. The volume then considers economics, ownership and organizational forms, revealing attempts by the economics profession to address central organizational agencies in their theorizing, starting from Coase, and also Williamson, who was responsible for introducing 'organizational economics' and moving on to the work of Boisot, Ouchi, Fligstein Donaldson, and Barney and others. Taken together these four volumes represent a diverse and valuable set. The volumes will enable any instructor to construct a coherent and evolutionary course on 'organizations'. Central Currents in Organization Theory Volumes 1 - 4 presents all the main works that lead to the emergence of organization theory and which still constitute central debates in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clegg, Stewart R.

Fachgebiete

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

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 - David Stark
From Asceticism to Administration of Wealth - Alfred 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 - Peter 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 - Chester I Barnard
An Examination into Logical and Non-logical Thought Processes
The Effects of Social Environment - Lawrence J Henderson, T N Whitehead, and Elton Mayo
The Hawthorne Studies - A Carey
A Radical Critique
Minding the Workers - Ellen 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) - Talcott Parsons
Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (II) - Talcott 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 - John 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, 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 - Thomas 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 - Howard E Aldrich and Jeffrey 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 Hayagreeval
Past, Present, and Future Directions
Organizations in Changing Environmen

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.