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Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives

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Title
Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives
Abstract/Description
This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational, natural, and open systems; environments, strategies, and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in corporations and international business, and business strategists.
Author/creator
Scott, W. Richard
Davis, Gerald Fredrick
Date
2007
Publisher
Pearson Prentice Hall
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en No
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-13-232902-6
DOI
10.4324/9781315663371
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)
Citation
Scott, W. R., & Davis, G. F. (2007). Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives. Pearson Prentice Hall.
Cited in
The Institution of Schooling
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 4 Citations

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