'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…mehr
'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 notionHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012). He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School¿s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy.
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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
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
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