Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-304) and index.
Contents:
Past postmodernism? Reflections and tentative directions / About theories of organization / Marta Calas, Linda Smircich. Assumptions about the nature of social science and society / Gibson Burrell, Gareth Morgan -- Closed system rational models. Classical approach : the fundamentals of top management / Ralph C. Davis -- Closed system natural models. Functions of the executive / Chester Barnard -- Integrative approaches to organization. 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 -- Open system rational models. Bounded rationality. James March and Herbert Simon, organizations / Henry L. Tosi -- Contingency theories. 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 -- Economic approaches. Agency theory : an assessment and review / Kathleen Eisenhardt -- Theory of managerial capitalism / Henry L. Tosi -- Markets and hierarchies program of research: origins, implications, prospects / Oliver Williamson, William Ouchi -- Open system natural models. Selznick's TVA and the grass roots / Henry L. Tosi -- Population of ecology of organizations / Michael T. Hannan, John Freeman -- Adolescence of institutional theory / W. Richard Scott -- Critical theory and postmodernism. Critical organizational theory / John M. Jermier -- Past postmodernism? Reflections and tentative directions / Marta Calas, Linda Smircich.
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