TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perrow,Charles
TI  - Complex organizations: a critical essay 
SN  - 0075547996
AV  - HM786 .P382 1986a
U1  - 302.35 21
PY  - 1986///]
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Complex organizations
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -