James D Thompson

Organizations in Action

Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781138529434
• ISBN-10: 1138529435
• Artikelnr.: 49209344

Autorenporträt

James D. Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION: THOMPSON'S BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS
PREFACE
Part One
1. Strategies for Studying Organizations
2. Rationality in Organizations
3. Domains of Organized Action
4. Organizational Design
5. Technology and Structure
6. Organizational Rationality and Structure
7. The Assessment of Organizations
Part Two
8. The Variable Human
9. Discretion and Its Exercise
10. The Control of Complex Organizations
11. The Administrative Process
12. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX