Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations, Rev. Ed.

Amitai Etzioni is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Center for Policy Research. His other books include Political Unification and The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes.

American Sociological Review This is an important book....It classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systematically examines variations among different types of organization....The scope of Etizioni's approach include a wide variety of organizations, from religious societies to concentration camps...valuable reading for all students of organization.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the First EditionIntroduction to the Revised and Enlarged EditionPart One: TOWARD AN ANALYTICAL TYPOLOGYI. Compliance as a Comparative BaseII. An Analytical Classification: Coercive and Utilitarian OrganizationsIII. An Analytical Classification: Normative and Dual OrganizationsIV. The Compliance Thesis RevisitedPart Two: CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCE: GOALS, EFFECTIVENESS, AND ELITESV. Compliance, Goals, and EffectivenessVI. Goals and Effectiveness RevisitedVII. Compliance and Organizational ElitesVIII. Compliance and Elites RevisitedPart Three: OTHER CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCEIX. Compliance and Cultural Integration: Consensus, Communication, and SocializationX. Compliance and Organizational Environment: Recruitment, Scope, and PervasivenessXI. Cohesion and ComplianceXII. Compliance and the Distribution of CharismaXIII. Organizational Controls of CharismaXIV. Other Correlates RevisitedXV. Other Correlates Revisited: A Causal AnalysisPart Four: COMPLIANCE IN A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVEXVI. Concomitant and Successive Division of ComplianceXVII. New DirectionsList of New Compliance Studies CitedSelected BibliographyName IndexSubject Index