When Things Go Wrong

Organizational Failures and Breakdowns

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

To understand success, you must first understand failure. This understanding is especially critical since failure is a phenomenon that is much more common to everyday life, businesses, and government practice than standard theory would lead us to assume. Failure manifests itself in many ways, including breakdowns, bankruptcies, and other forms of organizational catastrophes and fiascoes. Thus, learning from failure will enable success. When Things Go Wrong brings together contributions from 24 leading scholars who examine the causes, patterns, process, and outcomes of such failures from economic, managerial, cognitive and political perspectives. This book presents failure as a relative concept in terms of the expectations and strategies of stakeholders putting a claim on the performance of the organization and the notion of success. It challenges future research in this field to combine both economic and non-economic performance measures to assess organizational tendencies toward success and failure and to differentiate between failure as process and failure as an outcome.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-03-02
Mått:153 x 227 x 20 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761910480

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Mer om författaren

Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012). He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONOrganizational Failures, Breakdowns and Bankruptcies - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne MoultonAn IntroductionPART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS AND FAILURECostly Information - Lynne G Zucker and Michael R DarbyFirm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent FailureDecision Overreach as a Reason for Failure - David Wilson, David J Hickson and Susan J MillerHow Organisations Can Overbalance"Tales from the Grave" - Mark Hager et alOrganizations′ Accounts of Their Own DemiseOrganizational Coping, Failure, and Success - Renate MayntzAcademies of Sciences in Central and Eastern EuropePART THREE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCYSuccessful Failure - Wolfgang SeibelAn Alternative View of Organizational CopingVeiled Politics - Kevin J DelaneyBankruptcy as a Structured Organizational FieldThe Politics of Blame Avoidance - Mark Bovens et alDefensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime-Fighting FiascoCreating the Agents of Corporate Rescue - Terence C Halliday and Bruce G CarruthersProfessionalization of InsolvencyPART FOUR: THE COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF FAILUREProsaic Organizational Failure - Lee Clarke and Charles PerrowPermanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance - Marshall W MeyerPART FIVE: STRUCTURAL FAILURESSuccess and Failure in Institutional Development - Frank P Romo and Helmut K AnheierA Network ApproachStalemate - Helmut K Anheier and Frank P RomoA Structural Analysis of Organizational FailurePART SIX: CONCLUSIONStudying Organizational Failures - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton