Theories of Organization

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Part I - Overture Chapter 1 -About Theories of Organization Chapter 2 - Assumptions About the Nature of Social Science and Society - Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan Part II - Closed System Rational Models Chapter 3 - The Classical Approach: The Fundamentals of Top Management - Ralph C. Davis Part III - Closed System Natural Models Chapter 4 - The Functions of the Executive - Chester Barnard Part IV - Integrative Approaches to Organization Chapter 5 - Organizations Power and Compliance: Amatai Etzioni's A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations - Robert J. House Chapter 6 - James D. Thompson's Organizations in Action - Donna Goehle Part V - Open System Rational Models Bounded Rationality Chapter 7 - James March and Herbert Simon, Organizations - Henry Tosi Contingency Theories Chapter 8 -Burns and Stalker, The Management of Innovation Chapter 9 - Woodward's Industrial Organization - Donna Goehle Chapter 10 - Organization Analysis: A Sociological Point of View - Charles Perrow Chapter 11. Henry Mintzberg, The Structuring of Organizations - Janice H. Zahrly Economic Approaches Chapter 12-Agency Theory: an Assessment and Overview - Kathleen Eisenhardt Chapter 13 - Theory of Managerial Capitalism - Henry Tosi Chapter 14 The Markets and Hierarchies Program of Research: Origins, Implications, Prospects - Oliver Williamson and William Ouchi Part VI - Open System Natural Models Chapter 15 - Selznick's TVA and the Grass Roots - Henry Tosi Chapter 16 The Population Ecology of Organizations by - Michael Hannan and John Freeman Chapter 17 - The Adolescence of Institutional Theory - W. Richard Scott Part VII - Critical Theory and Post Modernism Chapter 18 Critical Organizational Theory - John M. Jermier Chapter 19 -Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions - Marta Calas and Linda Smircich

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