Theories of organization /

By: Tosi, Henry LMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2009Description: 329 p. : illISBN: 9781412924993 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 1412924995 (pbk. : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Organization | Industrial organization | Industrial sociologyDDC classification: 302.35 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
About theories of organization / Henry L. Tosi -- Assumptions about the nature of social science and society / Gibson Burrell, Gareth Morgan -- The classical approach: the fundamentals of top management / Ralph C. Davis -- The functions of the executive / Chester Barnard -- Organizations power and compliance: Amatai Etzioni's a comparative analysis of complex organizations / Robert J. House -- James D. Thompson's Organizations in action / Donna Goehle -- James March and Herbert Simon, organizations / Henry L. Tosi -- Burns and stalker, the management of innovation -- Woodward's industrial organization / Donna Goehle -- Organization analysis: a sociological point of view / Charles Perrow --Henry Mintzberg, the structuring of organizations / Janice H. Zahrly -- Agency theory: an assessment and review / Kathleen Eisenhardt -- Theory of managerial capitalism / Henry L. Tosi -- The markets and hierarchies program of research: origins, implications, prospects / Oliver Williamson, William Ouchi -- Selznick's TVA and the grass roots / Henry L. Tosi -- The population of ecology of organizations / Michael T. Hannan, John Freeman -- The adolescence of institutional theory / W. Richard Scott -- Critical organizational theory / John M. Jermier -- Past postmodernism? reflections and tentative directions / Marta Calas, Linda Smircich.
Summary: "Henry L. Tosi's Theories of Organization offers a unique treatment of a broad range of important theoretical approaches to the study of organizations, including a thorough overview of classical theory, institutional theory, population ecology, critical organization theory, and postmodern approaches. Tosi also provides a helpful summary of the work of Chester Barnard, the contributions of James March and Herbert Simon, and economic approaches to organization." "Rather than focusing on specific topics, such as authority, goals, and organizational structure, this presentation of organizational theory provides comprehensive coverage of the important variables and relationships in each of a broad range of theories, thus providing the reader with a thorough understanding of each theoretical model included." "This book is useful as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in Organizational Theory
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About theories of organization / Henry L. Tosi --
Assumptions about the nature of social science and society / Gibson Burrell, Gareth Morgan --
The classical approach: the fundamentals of top management / Ralph C. Davis --
The functions of the executive / Chester Barnard --
Organizations power and compliance: Amatai Etzioni's a comparative analysis of complex organizations / Robert J. House --
James D. Thompson's Organizations in action / Donna Goehle --
James March and Herbert Simon, organizations / Henry L. Tosi --
Burns and stalker, the management of innovation --
Woodward's industrial organization / Donna Goehle --
Organization analysis: a sociological point of view / Charles Perrow --Henry Mintzberg, the structuring of organizations / Janice H. Zahrly --
Agency theory: an assessment and review / Kathleen Eisenhardt --
Theory of managerial capitalism / Henry L. Tosi --
The markets and hierarchies program of research: origins, implications, prospects / Oliver Williamson, William Ouchi --
Selznick's TVA and the grass roots / Henry L. Tosi --
The population of ecology of organizations / Michael T. Hannan, John Freeman --
The adolescence of institutional theory / W. Richard Scott --
Critical organizational theory / John M. Jermier --
Past postmodernism? reflections and tentative directions / Marta Calas, Linda Smircich.


"Henry L. Tosi's Theories of Organization offers a unique treatment of a broad range of important theoretical approaches to the study of organizations, including a thorough overview of classical theory, institutional theory, population ecology, critical organization theory, and postmodern approaches. Tosi also provides a helpful summary of the work of Chester Barnard, the contributions of James March and Herbert Simon, and economic approaches to organization." "Rather than focusing on specific topics, such as authority, goals, and organizational structure, this presentation of organizational theory provides comprehensive coverage of the important variables and relationships in each of a broad range of theories, thus providing the reader with a thorough understanding of each theoretical model included." "This book is useful as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in Organizational Theory

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