Article. OD Practitioner. Vol .35.# 4.2003.pp.3-7 The authour is the Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School and is the founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business in San Francisco This article is about authour's journey to date to find out what takes to make succssful changes - both...
Article. Journal of Management, 1999, Vol. 25, №3 This review selectively examines the theoretical and empirical organizational change literature over the 9 years. Four research themes or issues common to all change efforts are discussed.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 310 p. — ISBN: 0521863341, 9780521863346 Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization. Because the firm is the critical unit of analysis in strategy, we need to define what firms are, how they create value, and what their...
University Of Chicago Press, 2008. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0226042871, 9780226042879 The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, The Analysis of Firms and Employees presents new findings about these impacts by...
ISBN: 978-0-7494-5310-7 1959- II. Title.HD 58.8.C317 2008658.4 06-dc22 Making Sense of Change Management helps you to manage change more elegantly and more effectively! Written for managers and consultants who wish to become more proficient, the book resists the temptation to recommend solutions and instead offers multiple perspectives, encouraging the reader to pause and think...
Booksurge, 2008. — 655 p. Part One: State Capitalist Intervention in the Market A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale Cross-Ideological Affinity for Large-Scale Organization Chandler, Galbraith, and Push Distribution Williamson on Asset-Specificity Appendix A. Economy of Scale in Development Economics A Literature Survey on Economies of Scale Economies of Firm...
Daft, R. L. (2016). Organization theory & design, 12th edition. Cengage Learning, 2016. Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Professor Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership. Professor Daft is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has...
Praeger, 2002. — 306 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 0275961400, 9780275961404 Farazmand and his contributors examine modern organization theory and behavior. They view organization in two ways: As an organization of society into public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and they examine the power structure and those power elites who determine policy choices and outcomes. They also look at...
McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011. - 618 p. The Fourteenth Edition of the award-winning Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the idea that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. This book illustrates how organizational behavior theory leads to research and how both theory and research provide...
Article. Harvard Business Review. 1967. May-June Greiner L. was Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, has developed cases and taught in the area of organizational behavior. Revolutionary Process. Management Awakening. Common Approaches. Unilateral Action
Article.American Sociological Review, 1984. - Vol.49 (Apr), p.149-164 Theory and research on organization-environment relations from a population ecology perspective have been based on the assumption that inertial pressures on structure are strong. This paper attempts to clarify the meaning of structural inertia and to derive propositions about structural inertia from an...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 384 p. — 3rd ed. — ISBN: 0199640378, 9780199640379. Organization Theory, Third Edition, offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study of organizations and organizing processes. It encourages an even-handed appreciation of the different perspectives contributing to our knowledge of organizations and challenges readers to broaden...
Published: January 22nd 2009 by Prentice Hall (first published 2003) ISBN: 0136087310 Business is changing at break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge.Organizational Theory, Design, and Change continues to provide students with the most up-to-date and contemporary treatment of the way managers attempt to...
2nd edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. — 906 p. This is the second edition of the Handbook, again addressed to uniting philosophy and public administration. Few subjects are more influenced by philosophy than the form of governance a public selects to guide and administer its public affairs. Yet, the literature continues to be strangely silent about the...
Springer, 2017. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-3319549231. This book provides a comprehensive overview of organizational diversity management, intended to help readers implement effective strategies and maximize the value of organizational diversity. Written by experts from a range of disciplines, it presents cutting-edge research and best practices in this field. Further, it addresses...
Article. 3rd Workshop on Organisational Change & Development: Advances,Challenges & Contradictions. Bucharest, 26-27 Sept, 2008. The literature on change is characterized by a dichotomist view on the subject. The purpose of this paper is to try to consolidate the vast literature on the types and attributes of change in order to find a more homogeneous set of attributes.
Prentice Hall/Financial Times.; Pearson Education Limited 2007. — 473 p. Organization Theory brings a fresh approach to long-standing questions and is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students for whom the study of organizational theory or analysis is an integral part of their degree programme. Introducing organization theory: what is it, and why does it matter?...
Prentice-Hall, 1983. — 317 p. — ISBN: 0-13-855479-X Here's a guide that shows managers how to choose the best organizational design for their business from five basic structures identified by the author. In it readers will discover how to avoid typical mistakes, especially those pertaining to conflict among different divisions.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 368 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-86243-1. Firms in market economies vary enormously in size, nature and competitiveness. In this important contribution to the literature on the theory of the firm, Mario Morroni provides a fresh analytical framework which improves our understanding of the causes of this diversity in organisational design and...
3eme édition. — DUNOD, 2008. — ISBN: 978-2-10-054428-8. La théorie des organisations constitue un champ de connaissances fondamentales pour des étudiants de premier cycle qui suivent, pour l’essentiel, un cursus d’économie, de gestion ou de sciences sociales. Ce corpus de connaissances, constitué par un ensemble de théories, de concepts, de méthodes ou encore d’outils, est...
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990. — 580 p. — ISBN: 0136424716. Organization Theory (OT) is one of the most interesting and relevant subdisciplines within the administrative sciences. For instance, in this book, you’ll find answers to such questions as: Are large organizations more or less efficient than small ones? How do lower-level employees gain power and circumvent their...
14th Global Edition. — Pearson, 2017. — 403 p. — ISVB 978-1292221410. A streamlined presentation of key organizational behavior concepts Essentials of Organizational Behavior teaches readers how to communicate and interact within organizations, through real-world scenarios. The text offers comprehensive coverage of key organizational behavior (OB) concepts, making each lesson...
Prentice Hall, 2013. — 376 p. in color. — 12th ed. — ISBN: 0132968509, 9780132968508 For one-semester undergraduate and graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior. Concise fundamentals for students. Ultimate flexibility for instructors. This bestselling, brief alternative for the OB course covers all the key concepts needed to understand, predict, and respond to the...
Prentice Hall – 2012, 720 p. in color, 15th Edition ISBN: 0132834871, 9780132834872 Robbins/Judge presents current, relevant research in a clear, reader-friendly writing style. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 544 p. — ISBN: 0521736609, 0521517389 The Theory of the Firm presents a path-breaking general framework for understanding the economics of the firm. The book addresses why firms exist, how firms are established, and what contributions firms make to the economy. The book presents a new theoretical analysis of the foundations of microeconomics...
Article// Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 35, Sep 1999, p.273-286 This article describes the emergence of change management as a service offering of major consulting firms. The authors compare change management with traditional OD in terms of theory and analytical framework, the role of the interventionist, and intervention strategies. They argue the change management has...
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