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 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 - 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.