This handbook provides a forum for leading researchers in organization theory to reflect on their own discipline: how it has developed and why; what sorts of knowledge claims it regards as acceptable and why; and where it may be, or should be, going.
The central question explored in this work is the epistemological status of organization theory as a policy science.
This handbook investigates paradoxes across various organisational phenomena and levels of analysis.
Mapping the organizational identity (OI) field -- Critical perspectives on OI -- Integrative models of OI -- How individuals relate to OI -- Sources and processes of OI -- OI and the environment -- Implications of OI
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Växjö Universitet, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Organization Theory and its many insights into the twists and turns of organizations have ...
This title examines how contemporary currents in sociology and social theory have influenced the field of organisation studies.
Contemporary society and its organisations are in a period of accelerated, profound change. In this book, leading sociology and organsational scholars consider how 'classic' sociologists can help make sense of change.
Presents cutting-edge theories and research from leading scholars on how to understand and manage organization change initiatives.
This Handbook offers extensive reviews of both new and traditional perspectives on the concept and provides suggestions for how the learning organization can best be defined, practiced, studied, and developed in future research.
This book presents a novel and comprehensive process theory of organization applicable to "a world on the move," where connectedness prevails over size, flow prevails over stability, and temporality prevails over spatiality.
Students of organizational behavior have also gathered case studies with the intention of using the material to study organizational decision making. The work of Gordon (1961) on business leadership and of Kaplan, Dirlam, ...