Organizational Sociology

ISBN-13: 9781855214064 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 696 str.

W. Richard Scott

Opis

Offers an analysis of organizational sociology which covers organization design, organizational structure and contingency theory. Other topics examined include looking at the business firm as a political coalition, mergers, the population ecology of organizations and neo-Marxist theory.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Contingency Theory: Organization design: an information processing view, Jay R. Galbraith; Organizational structure, environment and performance: the role of strategic choice, John Child; Alternative forms of fit in contingency theory, Robert Drazin and Andrew H. van den Ven; Organizational structures in Japanese and US manufacturing, James R. Lincoln, Mitsuyo Hanada and Kerry McBride. Resource Dependence Theory: The business firm as a political coalition, James G. March; A strategic contingencies theory of intraorganizational power, D.J. Hickson; C.R. Hinings, C.A. Lee, R.E. Schneck and J.M. Pennings; Merger as a response to organizational interdependence, Jeffrey Pfeffer; Testing a structural theory of corporate cooptation, Ronald S. Burt, Kenneth P. Christman and Harold C. Kilburn Jr. Interorganizational Directorate Ties as a Strategy for Avoiding Market Constraints on Profits: Population and Community Ecology: The population ecology of organizations, Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman; The ecology of organizational founding: American labor unions 1836-1985, Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman; The 2 ecologies: population and community perspectives on organizational evolution, W. Graham Astley; Technological discontinuities and organizational environments, Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson. Transactions Costs Money: The economics of organization: the transaction cost approach, Oliver E. Williamson; Organizational structure and economic performance: a test of the multidivisional hypothesis, Henry Ogden Armour and David J. Teece; A transaction cost approach to make-or-buy decisions, Gordon Walker and David Weber; Price and authority in inter-profit center transactions, Robert G. Eccles and Harrison C. White. Neo-Marxist: Towards a sociology of organizational structure, Graeme Salaman; The deskilling controversy, Paul Attewell; Corporate control and corporate rule: Britain in an international perspective, John Scott. Institutional Theor

O autorze

W. Richard Scott