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Complex organizations : a critical essay / Charles Perrow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Edition: Third editionDescription: x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0075547996
  • 9780075547990
Other title:
  • Complex organisations
  • Complex organisations : A critical essay
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.35 21
LOC classification:
  • HM786 .P382 1986a
Contents:
Why bureaucracy? -- Managerial ideologies and the origins of the human relations movement -- The human relations model -- The neo-Weberian model: decision making, conflict, and technology -- The institutional school -- The environment -- Economic theories of organization -- Power in organizational analysis: illustrations, summary, and conclusions.
Summary: "This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition."--Publisher description.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 302.35 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A289407B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.

Why bureaucracy? -- Managerial ideologies and the origins of the human relations movement -- The human relations model -- The neo-Weberian model: decision making, conflict, and technology -- The institutional school -- The environment -- Economic theories of organization -- Power in organizational analysis: illustrations, summary, and conclusions.

"This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition."--Publisher description.

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