Helmut K. Anheier

When Things Go Wrong

Organizational Failures and Breakdowns

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'The editor has worked well to achieve a coherent product which will serve as the authoritative and leading text in its area. The future research agenda is to combine economic and non-economic performance measures, as well a to differentiate failure as process and failure as an outcome.' - Gerald Vinten, Southampton Business Institute, British Academy of Management News This book deals with the the multi-faceted nature of organizational failure through examination of the organizational, political, cognitive and structural aspects of the phenomenon. `Failure' is presented as a relative concept where the expectations and strategies of stakeholders make claims on the performance of the organization and the notion

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780761910480
• ISBN-10: 0761910484
• Artikelnr.: 21869691

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Organizational Failures, Breakdowns and Bankruptcies - Helmut K Anheier and
Lynne Moulton
An Introduction
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS AND FAILURE
Costly Information - Lynne G Zucker and Michael R Darby
Firm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent Failure
Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure - David Wilson, David J Hickson
and Susan J Miller
How Organisations Can Overbalance
"Tales from the Grave" - Mark Hager et al
Organizations¿ Accounts of Their Own Demise
Organizational Coping, Failure, and Success - Renate Mayntz
Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe
PART THREE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCY
Successful Failure - Wolfgang Seibel
An Alternative View of Organizational Coping
Veiled Politics - Kevin J Delaney
Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field
The Politics of Blame Avoidance - Mark Bovens et al
Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime-Fighting Fiasco
Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue - Terence C Halliday and Bruce G
Carruthers
Professionalization of Insolvency
PART FOUR: THE COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF FAILURE
Prosaic Organizational Failure - Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow
Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance - Marshall
W Meyer
PART FIVE: STRUCTURAL FAILURES
Success and Failure in Institutional Development - Frank P Romo and Helmut
K Anheier
A Network Approach
Stalemate - Helmut K Anheier and Frank P Romo
A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure
PART SIX: CONCLUSION
Studying Organizational Failures - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton