Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited sixth edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organizations studies trough the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. 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 cutting-edge theories in management today. The clear explanation of complex ideas and the breadth of coverage makes this book a valuable resource to a wide audience. The book is completely updated and, including the…mehr
Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited sixth edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organizations studies trough the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. 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 cutting-edge theories in management today. The clear explanation of complex ideas and the breadth of coverage makes this book a valuable resource to a wide audience. The book is completely updated and, including the discussion of approximately eleven new writers. Key Features: useful for both students and professionals in management, organization studies, industrial psychology, public administration, social psychology, sociology, political science, and communicationprovides brief summaries of major contributions to the field helps the reader understand and classify different types of organizations serves as a resource giving a general overview of the field
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.
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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
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
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