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Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Dartmouth, c1995.
Description:xvii, 424 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:History of management thought
History of management thought (Aldershot, England)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1676434
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Other authors / contributors:Hall, Richard H., 1934-
ISBN:1855214431
Notes:Articles previously published 1957-1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Complexity Recognized
  • Theoretical and Empirical Developments
  • Technology, organization and administration
  • A framework for the comparative analysis of organizations
  • Dimensions of organization structure
  • The concept of bureaucracy: an empirical assessment
  • Technology and organizational structure: a re-examination of the findings of the Aston group
  • Coming Out
  • Bringing in the World
  • Organizational structure, environment and performance: the role of strategic choice
  • The population ecology of organizations
  • Patterns of interorganizational relationships
  • For a study of 'the societal effect': universality and specificity in organization research
  • New Ways of Thinking
  • Institutional sources of change in the formal structure of organizations: the diffusion of civil service reforms
  • Collective mind in organizations: heedful interrelating on flight decks
  • New Ways of Theorizing
  • The spread of the multidivisional form among large firms 1919-1979
  • Market culture and authority: a comparative analysis of management and organization in the Far East
  • An institutional model of organizational practice: financial reporting at the Fortune 200
  • Between a rock and a hard place: organizational change and performance under conditions of fundamental environment transformation
  • Refocusing on Power
  • External and Internal
  • Similarity of political behaviour among large American corporations
  • Power and managerial dismissal: scapegoating at the top
  • Name index