James D. Thompson taught business administration and sociology at Indiana University and Vanderbilt University. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and American Sociological Review. Mayer N. Zald is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Occupations and Organizations in American Society, and co-author (with John McCarthy) of Social Movements in an Organizational Society, available from Transaction. W. Richard Scott is professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems and Institutions and Organizations, and is a former editor of Annual Review of Sociology.

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• PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION: THOMPSON'S BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, PREFACE, Part One, 1. Strategies for Studying Organizations, 2. Rationality in Organizations, 3. Domains of Organized Action, 4. Organizational Design, 5. Technology and Structure, 6. Organizational Rationality and Structure, 7. The Assessment of Organizations, Part Two, 8. The Variable Human, 9. Discretion and Its Exercise, 10. The Control of Complex Organizations, 11. The Administrative Process, 12. Conclusion, BIBLIOGRAPHY, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX

James D. Thompson taught business administration and sociology at Indiana University and Vanderbilt University. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and American Sociological Review. Mayer N. Zald is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Occupations and Organizations in American Society, and co-author (with John McCarthy) of Social Movements in an Organizational Society, available from Transaction. W. Richard Scott is professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems and Institutions and Organizations, and is a former editor of Annual Review of Sociology.

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• PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION: THOMPSON'S BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, PREFACE, Part One, 1. Strategies for Studying Organizations, 2. Rationality in Organizations, 3. Domains of Organized Action, 4. Organizational Design, 5. Technology and Structure, 6. Organizational Rationality and Structure, 7. The Assessment of Organizations, Part Two, 8. The Variable Human, 9. Discretion and Its Exercise, 10. The Control of Complex Organizations, 11. The Administrative Process, 12. Conclusion, BIBLIOGRAPHY, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX

James D. Thompson taught business administration and sociology at Indiana University and Vanderbilt University. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and American Sociological Review. Mayer N. Zald is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Occupations and Organizations in American Society, and co-author (with John McCarthy) of Social Movements in an Organizational Society, available from Transaction. W. Richard Scott is professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems and Institutions and Organizations, and is a former editor of Annual Review of Sociology.

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• PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION: THOMPSON'S BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, PREFACE, Part One, 1. Strategies for Studying Organizations, 2. Rationality in Organizations, 3. Domains of Organized Action, 4. Organizational Design, 5. Technology and Structure, 6. Organizational Rationality and Structure, 7. The Assessment of Organizations, Part Two, 8. The Variable Human, 9. Discretion and Its Exercise, 10. The Control of Complex Organizations, 11. The Administrative Process, 12. Conclusion, BIBLIOGRAPHY, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX