ABSTRACT
Higher education is a complex enterprise open to a wide range of understandings and interpretations. Its complexity is expressed in the types of institutions, environmental pressures exerted, multiple and simultaneously occurring organizational structures, and numerous professional identities of its members. Th ose working in higher education can only make sense of this complexity by understanding and using a combination of theoretical perspectives through which to view their work. Th is book presents multiple perspectives on organizational theory and provides higher education administrators, faculty, staff , and students with a variety of lenses through which to view their practices.
