The Sociology of Organizations

"Michael Handel has assembled an authoritative and wide-ranging collection of key articles in the organizations field, and complements these papers with a terrific critical survey of the literature. His introductory essays will benefit both students and researchers alike. This collection is a real service to the field."

• PrefaceIntroductionOrganizations as Rational Systems I: Classic Theories of Bureaucracy and Administration - Michael J. HandelA. Early Definitions of Organization and ManagementBureaucracy and Legitimate Authority - Max WeberCritiqueB. Scientific Management and the Treatment of LaborThe Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick W. TaylorCritiqueThe Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century - Harry BravermanOrganizations as Rational Systems II: Contingency Theory and the Discover of Organizational Variation - Michael J. HandelThe Management of Innovation - Tom Burns / G.M. StalkerTechnology and Organization - Joan WoodwardThe Measurement of Organization Structures - D.S. PughOrganizations as Human and Social Systems I: The Impulse to Reform Work - Michael J. HandelA. The Early Human Relations MovementThe Hawthorne Experiments - George C. HomansCritiqueHawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker, and Class Bias in Psychology - Dana Bramel / Ronald FriendB. Humanistic Management and Contemporary Employee InvolvementThe Human Side of Enterprise - Douglas McGregorFrom Control to Commitment in the Workplace - Richard E. WaltonA Differnt Kind of Company: From Control to Commitment in Practice - Saul RubinsteinCritiqueInside a Japanese Transplant: A Critical Perspective - Laurie GrahamOrganizations as Human and Social Systems II: Informal Organizations as Shadow Structure - Michael J. HandelConflicts Between Staff and Line Managerial Officers - Melville DaltonThe World of Corporate Managers - Robert JackallManufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Market Capitalism - Michael BurawoyRationality and Non-Rationality in Organizational Decision Making - Michael J. HandelConceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Graham AllisonPower Inside Organizations - Michael J. HandelOrganizations and Oligarchy - Robert MichaelsOrganizations as Open Systems: Organizations and Their Environments - Michael J. HandelA. Resource Dependency TheoryThe External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective - Jeffrey Pfeffer / Gerald R. SalancikB. Institutional TheoryThe Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio / Wlater PowellOrganizational EcologyDensity-Dependent Processes - Glenn R. Carroll / Michael T. HannanEconomic Theories of Organizations - Michael J. HandelTheory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure - Michael C. Jensen /William H. MecklingThe Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach - Oliver E. WilliamsonCritiqueMarkets, Hierarchies and Hegemony - Charles PerrowThe Evolution of Modern Business Organization: From Big Business to Post-Fordism - Michael J. HandelA. Alfred Chandler′s Account of the Rise of Big BusinessThe Emergence of Managerial Capitalism - Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.B. Post-Bureaucratic Alternatives to Big BusinessNeither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization - Walter W. PowellCritiqueLean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in an Age of Flexibility - Bennett HarrisonOrganizational Culture - Michael J. HandelEngineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation - Gideon KundaOrganizations and Society: Gender, Race, Class, and Politics - Michael J. HandelMen and Women of the Corporation - Rosabeth Moss KanterBlack Mobility in Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder but Out on a Limb - Sharon CollinsSegmented Labor Markets - Richard EdwardsThe Access Process: Loopholes as a System - Dan Clawson Alan Neustadtl, and Denise ScottOrganizational Deviance - Michael J. HandelNormal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies - Charles PerrowRational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations:; The Challenger Launch Decision - Diane VaughanDemocratic Alternatives to Capitalist Bureaucracy: Worker Ownerships and Self-Management - Michael J. HandelThe Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational Bureaucratic Models - Joyce Rothschild-WhittWorker Ownership, Participation, and Control: Toward a Theoretical Model - William Foote/Joseph R. Blasi/Douglas Lynn KruseGovernment, Nonprofit Agencies, and Voluntary Associations - Michael J. HandelStreet-Level Bureaucracy - Michael LipskyReferencesIndex