ABSTRACT

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include:

  • the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it
  • the meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations School
  • the development of typological systems and contingency models of the organization
  • key concepts of goals, environment and technology.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|65 pages

The emergence of an organization theory

chapter 4|35 pages

Typologies of organizations

chapter 5|42 pages

Organizations as systems

chapter 7|35 pages

Organizations as structures of action

chapter 8|36 pages

Goals in organizations

chapter 9|32 pages

Organization and technology

chapter 10|34 pages

Organizations and environments

chapter 11|33 pages

People in organizations

chapter 12|50 pages

Power and class in organizations

chapter 13|73 pages

The political economy of organizations