ISBN:
9780131958937
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (465 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Print version Organizations and Organizing : Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, W. Richard, 1932 - Organizations and organizing
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organisationstheorie
;
Organisationssoziologie
;
Theorie
;
Electronic books
;
Organisationssoziologie
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Subject Is Organizations; The Verb is Organizing""; ""The Importance of Organizations""; ""Organizations as an Area of Study""; ""Common and Divergent Interests""; ""The Elements of Organizations""; ""Defining the Concept of Organization""; ""Summary""; ""2 Organizations as Rational Systems""; ""The Defining Characteristics""; ""Selected Schools""; ""Summary and Tentative Conclusions""; ""3 Organizations as Natural Systems""; ""Basic versus Distinctive Characteristics""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Selected Schools""""Summary and Tentative Conclusions""; ""4 Organizations as Open Systems""; ""System Levels""; ""Special Emphases and Insights""; ""Selected Schools""; ""Summary and Tentative Conclusions""; ""5 Combining Perspectives, Expanding Levels""; ""Attempts at Integration""; ""Glancing Back and Looking Forward""; ""Expanded Levels of Analysis""; ""Theories at the Ecological Level""; ""Concluding Comment""; ""6 Technology and Structure""; ""Organizations as Technical Adaptive Systems""; ""Technology and Structure: Natural System Formulations""; ""Summary""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7 Labor and Structure""""The Social Boundaries of Organizations""; ""Division of Labor""; ""Labor Markets and Organizational Boundaries""; ""High-Performance Work Organizations""; ""Problems for Participants""; ""Concluding Comments""; ""8 Goals, Power, and Control""; ""Goal Setting in Organizations""; ""Anarchies, Adhocracies, and Learning""; ""Control Systems""; ""Critical and Postmodern Conceptions of Power""; ""Summary""; ""9 The Dyadic Environment of the Organization""; ""Why Are There Organizations, and Where Do They Place Their Boundaries?""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Transaction Costs and the Origins of Firms""""How Do Organizations Manage Their Relations with Other Organizations?""; ""Resource Dependence and the Negotiated Environment""; ""Summary""; ""10 Organization of the Environment""; ""How Do New Organizations and New Populations of Organizations Arise, and Why Do They Fail?: Ecological Perspectives""; ""How Are Organizations Shaped by Broader Social-Political-Cultural Processes?: Institutional Perspectives""; ""Summary""; ""11 Networks In and Around Organizations""; ""Introduction: From Metaphor to Method to Worldview""; ""Network Thinking""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Interorganizational Networks""""Network Forms of Organization""; ""Sectoral and Societal Networks""; ""Summary""; ""12 Strategy, Structure, and Performance: The Sociology of Organizational Strategy""; ""Why Are Organizations in Some Industries More Profitable Than Those in Others?""; ""Organizational Performance""; ""Summary""; ""13 The Rise and Transformation of the Corporate Form""; ""Changing Forms of Organizations""; ""Are Organizations Still the Defining Structures of Society?""; ""Summary""; ""14 Changing Contours of Organizations and Organization Theory""
Description / Table of Contents:
""From Unitary to Multiparadigm""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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