Organization Theory

Edited by the late Barbara Czarniawska, formerly Professor Emerita of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

'Czarniawska presents an authoritative overview of organization theory. Including the classics alongside the challenging and the provocative she gives an insight into the excitement that can be gained from the contemporary study of organized phenomena.'

• Contents:Volume I: Central Topics AcknowledgementsIntroduction Barbara Czarniawska PART ICREATING THE OBJECT OF ORGANIZATION THEORY 1. Dwight Waldo (1961), ‘Organization Theory: An Elephantine Problem’2. Charles Perrow (1991), ‘A Society of Organizations’3. Nils Brunsson and Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson (2000), ‘Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform’PART IISYSTEMS: OPEN, LOOSELY COUPLED OR AUTOPOIETIC? 4. Floyd H. Allport (1962), ‘A Structuronomic Conception of Behavior: Individual and Collective’5. Karl E. Weick (1976), ‘Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems’6. Niklas Luhmann (1986), ‘The Autopoiesis of Social Systems’PART IIIDECISION MAKING 7. Michael D. Cohen, James G. March and Johan P. Olsen (1972), ‘A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice’8. James G. March (1978), ‘Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice’9. Nils Brunsson (1982), ‘The Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality: Decisions, Ideologies and Organizational Actions’PART IVORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 10. Chris Argyris (1976), ‘Single-Loop and Double-Loop Models in Research on Decision Making’11. Bo Hedberg (1981), ‘How Organizations Learn and Unlearn’12. Scott D.N. Cook and Dvora Yanow (1993), ‘Culture and Organizational Learning’PART VLEADERSHIP 13. Gary Yukl (1971), ‘Toward A Behavioral Theory of Leadership’14. Jeffrey Pfeffer (1977), ‘The Ambiguity of Leadership’15. Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan (1982), ‘Leadership: The Management of Meaning’PART VIPOWER AND CONTROL 16. D.J. Hickson, C.R. Hinings, C.A. Lee, R.E. Schneck and J.M. Pennings (1971), ‘A Strategic Contingencies' Theory of Intraorganizational Power’17. William G. Ouchi (1979), ‘A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms’18. Stewart Clegg (1981), ‘Organization and Control’PART VIIORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE 19. Edgar H. Schein (1983), ‘The Role of the Founder in Creating Organizational Culture’20. Linda Smircich (1983), ‘Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis’21. John Van Maanen and Stephen R. Barley (1984), ‘Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations’Name IndexVolume II: Current Trends and Disciplinary Reflection AcknowledgementsAn introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume IPART INEW INSTITUTIONALISM AND ORGANIZATION THEORY 1. Roland L. Warren (1967), ‘The Interorganizational Field as a Focus for Investigation’2. Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell (1983), ‘The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields’PART IIENACTMENT AND SENSEMAKING 3. Karl E. Weick (1988), ‘Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations’PART IIIPOSTMODERN ORGANIZATION THEORY 4. Robert Cooper and Gibson Burrell (1988), ‘Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction’5. Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich (1991), ‘Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership’PART IVFEMINIST ORGANIZATION THEORY 6. Joan Acker (1990), ‘Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations’7. Joanne Martin (1990), ‘Deconstructing Organizational Taboos: The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations’PART VREFLECTIONS ON METHODOLOGY 8. Egon Bittner (1965), ‘The Concept of Organization’9. Henry Mintzberg (1971), ‘Managerial Work: Analysis from Observation’10. John Van Maanen (1979), ‘The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography’11. Noel M. Tichy, Michael L. Tushman and Charles Fombrun (1979), ‘Social Network Analysis for Organizations’PART VIREFLECTIONS ON THEORY 12. J. Kenneth Benson (1977), ‘Organizations: A Dialectical View’13. Gareth Morgan (1980), ‘Paradigms, Metaphors, and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory’14. Karl E. Weick (1989), ‘Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination’15. W. Graham Astley and Raymond F. Zammuto (1992), ‘Organization Science, Managers, and Language Games’Name Index