Complex Organizations: a Sociological Perspective
Author | : John Eugene Haas |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Eugene Haas |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eduardo Salas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 2008-11-20 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135596557 |
Over the past 40 years, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of teams for accomplishing work in organizations. Project teams, self-managed work teams and top management teams, among others have become a regular element in the corporation or military. This volume is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art research on team effectiveness.
Author | : Amitai Etzioni |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1975-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0029096200 |
This important book “classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systemically examines variations amount different types of organization” (American Sociological Review). Bringing light to a neglected field, A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations presents models for the analysis of various organizational types and examines how they are constructed. Primarily discussing the relationship between compliance and each variable it introduces, this book works as a cornerstone for the comparative analysis of organizations.
Author | : Walter W. Powell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2012-09-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022618594X |
Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis. In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science, and locate the "institutional" approach in relation to major developments in contemporary sociological theory. Several chapters consolidate the theoretical advances of the past decade, identify and clarify the paradigm's key ambiguities, and push the theoretical agenda in novel ways by developing sophisticated arguments about the linkage between institutional patterns and forms of social structure. The empirical studies that follow—involving such diverse topics as mental health clinics, art museums, large corporations, civil-service systems, and national polities—illustrate the explanatory power of institutional theory in the analysis of organizational change. Required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of organizations, the volume should appeal to scholars concerned with culture, political institutions, and social change.
Author | : Medani P. Bhandari |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2023-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000879542 |
This book stands as the full body of scholarly work on western theories of social sciences. The book contents three chapters. The first part gives the overall scenario of theories, the second part provides the pathway to research destination – the research method, and the third and final part is the destination of the substantive field of study and the roles of international organizations on social, political, economic, environmental regimes creation as well as to other social and development functions of international organizations. Sociology examines the social actors’ activities in society and social problems. Western Scholars have developed many social theories, which address the underlying causes such as social conflicts and inequalities, and many formal and informal social organizations are involved to minimize the challenges of inequalities. The study of social organizations is a relatively new phenomenon in sociology. Broadly its historical root can be traced from Greek civilization (Plato, Aristotle), and it has mostly flourished since the Enlightenment Era. However, empirical studies show that the scientific study of organizations began only from the 19th and 20th century. Among the scholars of these centuries, the contributions of Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, Ludwig Gumplovicz, Vilfredo Pareto, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons are considered as pillars of sociology. This book intends to answer the broad and major questions of theories, methods, and the international organization studies in social sciences, particularly in sociology and to provide the basic concepts of social theories, application of methods in research (qualitative), and elaborate the factual reality "why study of international organization is also subject of sociological study". The book presents the perspectives of organizational sociology in way that scholarly readers can see the linkages political sciences, sociology and slightly economic in addressing the roles and issues of the international organizations.
Author | : Howard Aldrich |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780804758291 |
When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cited the book for its innovative answer to this question: Under what conditions do organizations change? Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essential features of relations between organizations and their environments. This model explains organizational change by focusing on the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle. The "environment," as conceived by Aldrich, does not refer simply to elements "out there"beyond a set of focal organizationsbut rather to concentrations of resources, power, political domination, and most concretely, other organizations. Scholars using Aldrich's model have examined the societal context within which founders create organizations and whether those organizations survive or fail, rise to prominence, or sink into obscurity. A preface to the reprinted edition frames the utility of this classic for tomorrow's researchers and businesspeople.
Author | : Meir Dan-Cohen |
Publisher | : Quid Pro Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1610273354 |
Author | : Göran Ahrne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108474985 |
Describes the organizational aspects of contemporary society, explaining how organization occurs not only inside formal organizations, but also outside and among them.
Author | : W. Richard Scott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351913336 |
The readings collected in Organizational Sociology are organized so as to direct attention to the six major theoretical traditions which have emerged since the 1960s to guide research and interpretation of organizational structure and performance. The traditions reviewed are: Contingency theory, Resource dependence. Population and Community ecology, Transactions costs economics, Neo-Marxist theory and Institutional Theory. Major statements of each theory are presented together with examples of related empirical research. A concluding section provides examples of recent attempts to combine and integrate two or more of these theories, as analysts attempt to account for some aspects of organization. Rather than pitting one perspective against another, contemporary analysts are more likely to selectively combine elements from several theories in order to better understand the phenomenon of interest.