Derek S Pugh, David J Hickson

Writers on Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited Sixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer's contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• 6. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781412941020
• ISBN-10: 1412941024
• Artikelnr.: 21918708

Autorenporträt

Derek S. Pugh is Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, United Kingdom, having previously been at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aston, the London Business School, and the Open University Business School. He has been a visiting professor at business schools in France, Germany, Israel, and Italy and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the Italian Academy of Business Administration, and the International Academy of Management. He has served as Chairman and Honorary Vice-President of the Association of Teachers of Management of the United Kingdom and as editor of the newsletter of the British Academy of Management. He is a founding Academician of the British Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton. Professor Pugh is joint author and editor of 12 books, including the first three volumes of the Aston research program: PUGH, D.S. (ed.) The Aston Programme, vols 1, 2 and 3, Ashgate(Dartmouth), 1998. His latest books are Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition (2000, Dartmouth Publishing, with David J. Hickson), How to Get a Ph.D. (4th ed., 2005, Open University Press, with Estelle M. Phillips), Management Worldwide (enhanced ed., 2001, Penguin Books, with David J. Hickson), and Anglo-German Business Collaboration: Pitfalls and Potentials (1996, Macmillan, with Dagmar Ebster-Grosz). His edited volume Organization Theory: Selected Classic Readings (5th ed., Penguin Books) appears in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Sixth Edition 1 The Structure of Organizations Max
Weber Derek Pugh and the Aston Group, including John Child and David
Hickson Lex Donaldson Alfred D. Chandler Oliver E. Williamson Henry
Mintzberg Charles Handy Stewart Clegg Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra
Ghoshal 2 The Organization in its Environment Tom Burns Paul Lawrence and
Jay Lorsch Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik Raymond E. Miles and
Charles C. Snow Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman Geert Hofstede Richard
Whitley 3 Management and Decision-making in Organizations Henri Fayol
Frederick W. Taylor Peter F. Drucker Michel Foucault Herbert A. Simon James
G. March Karl E. Weick 4 People in Organizations Elton Mayo and the
Hawthorne Investigations Rensis Likert and Douglas McGregor Edgar H. Schein
Frederick Herzberg Eric Trist and the Work of the Tavistock Institute
Rosabeth Moss Kanter 5 Organizational Change and Learning Paul J. DiMaggio
and Walter W. Powell Andrew Pettigrew Chris Argyris Peter Senge Kathleen
Eisenhardt Gareth Morgan About the Authors