For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can be found in the departments of sociology, business and public administration departments.

Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems 1/e, covers the early history of organization studies, provides a comprehensive framework for comparing competing theoretical paradigms, and addresses major developments in the most recent decade. Its scholarly yet accessible conceptual framework encourages our diverse...

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles.
This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and relate them to both the sociodemographic trends in the Bay Area and to shifts in regulatory systems and policy environments at...

Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like and volatile and politicized while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Topics covered in this volume range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling programs.

Offers a study of quality management that is to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis. This book bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge current theories.

Offers a study of quality management that is to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis. This title bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge theories.

The institutional theory of organizations developed by Scott, Meyer and their colleagues over the past two decades has had an enormous impact on organizational theory and research. In this book, the editors review the major theoretical advances of the past decade and the empirical testing they have done on these theories. Their work has highlighted two key themes: the interrelationship between organizational complexity and the institutional environment; and the place of the individual within the organization.

This book discusses the question: are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power?

An analysis of the institutional and social movement processes that surround global infrastructure projects.

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.