Organizations do not have goals – only people do. Furthermore, people within the same organizations have different goals. This book takes this as its starting point, recognizing that organizations are a dynamic coalition of individuals and groups competing and co-operating as they each pursue their ..
This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The..
Exploring concepts and theories about different organizational, inter-organizational and international contexts, this student reader, comprised of a collection of accessible key articles, aids understanding of the individual’s experience of working within and across such boundaries. The book adopts ..
This book explores fractal process patterns of managing and organizing agency within the context of co-creative, post-humanist process assemblages. With a view toward ethics in organization development, it offers theory, research methods, and praxis advice to readers...
This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work...
This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work...
Exploring empirical studies and cases of organizational identity, this key book gives scholars, students and managers valuable ideas on how to deal with organizational identity challenges within firms...
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection...
In the last few decades we have witnessed an expansion in the amount of news coverage focusing on organizations and their activities and similarly, organizations have increased their investment in their own PR and media oriented forms of communication. This book explores how organizations and organi..
This book draws on neo-institutional and strategy theories of competitive advantage and develops an integrative approach to theorizing organizations and their behaviors, termed ‘orgology’. It will be of interest to students and researchers of organizational studies, strategic management and the soci..
Organized Worlds explores in detail the intricate relationships that exist between technology, representation and organization from a diversity of perspectives...