Organization theory : modern, symbolic, and postmodern perspectives / Mary Jo Hatch with Ann L. Cunliffe
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- Hatch, Mary Jo
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006
- xxiii, 370 p. : ill., maps, plan ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780199260218
- 0199260214
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- Machine derived contents note: Brief Table Of Contents
- List of figures xxii
- List of tables xxiv
- PART 1 What is Organization Theory? 1
- 1 Why Study Organization Theory? 3
- 2 A Brief History of Organization Theory 25
- PART 2 Core Concepts and Theories 61
- 3 Organization and Environment 63
- 4 Organizational Social Structure 101
- 5 Technology 141
- 6 Organizational Culture 175
- 7 The Physical Structure of Organizations 221
- 8 Organizational Power, Control and Conflict 251
- PART 3 Practical Issues and New Directions in Organization Theory 293
- 9 Theory in Practice 295
- 10 New Directions in Organization Theory 325
- Index 000
- Detailed Contents
- List of figures xxii
- List of tables xxiv
- PART 1 What is Organization Theory? 1
- 1 Why Study Organization Theory? 3
- Theories and theorizing organizations 4
- Concepts and abstraction in theory development 8
- Multiple perspectives 10
- Plan of the book 18
- Summary 20
- Key terms 21
- Endnotes 21
- References 22
- 2 A Brief History of Organization Theory 25
- Organization theory at its inception 26
- Modernist influences on organization theory 36
- Symbolic-interpretive influences 41
- Some postmodern influences 47
- Summary 55
- Key terms 57
- Endnotes 57
- References 58
- Further reading 60
- PART 2 Core Concepts and Theories 61
- 3 Organization and Environment 63
- Defining the organizational environment 65
- Modernist theories relating organizations to their environments 77
- Symbolic-interpretive environmental analysis 85
- Postmodernism and organization-environment relations 90
- Summary 96
- Key terms 98
- Endnotes 98
- References 99
- Further reading 100
- 4 Organizational Social Structure 101
- Origins of the social structure concept 102
- Modernist theories of organizational social structure 109
- Symbolic-interpretive approaches 126
- Postmodern approaches to social structure 131
- Summary 134
- Key terms 135
- Endnotes 135
- References 136
- Further reading 138
- 5 Technology 141
- Modernist definitions and three typologies 142
- Technology in the symbolic-interpretive perspective 153
- Postmodernism and technology 156
- Combining technology with social structure and environment 161
- Summary 170
- Key terms 170
- Endnotes 171
- References 171
- Further reading 172
- 6 Organizational Culture 175
- What is organizational culture and how did it become part of organization theory? 178
- Modernist approaches to organizational culture 181
- Symbolic-interpretive organizational culture research 191
- Postmodernism and organizational culture 202
- Changing culture 207
- Summary 213
- Key terms 213
- Endnotes 214
- References 215
- Further reading 218
- 7 The Physical Structure of Organizations 221
- Elements of physical structure 223
- Linking technology, social and physical structure 232
- Physical structure, organizational culture and identity 239
- Summary 246
- Key terms 246
- Endnotes 246
- References 247
- Further reading 250
- 8 Organizational Power, Control and Conflict 251
- Modernist conceptions of power, politics and control 253
- Critical studies of power and control 265
- Feminist and postmodern conceptions of power and control 270
- Organizational conflict in relation to environment, social structure, technology, culture, physical structure and power 279
- Summary 287
- Key terms 288
- Endnotes 289
- References 290
- Further reading 292
- PART 3 Practical Issues and New Directions in Organization Theory 293
- 9 Theory in Practice 295
- Organizational design 296
- Organizational change 308
- Organizational learning and knowledge management 313
- Summary 322
- Key terms 322
- Endnotes 323
- References 323
- Further reading 324
- 10 New Directions in Organization Theory 325
- The paradigm wars, revisited 325
- Critical realism 328
- Complexity theory 330
- Network theories of organizing 332
- Organizational identity 335
- The aesthetics of organizations and organizing 338
- Summary 341
- Key terms 341
- Endnotes 341
- References 342
- Further reading 345
- Index 000.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed. 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Cunliffe, Ann L
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