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New directions for organization theory : problems and prospects

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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In New Directions for Organization Theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a comprehensive analysis and overview of the field of organization theory and its research literature. This work traces the evolution of organization studies, particularly its more recent history, and highlights the principle concepts and controversies characterizing the study of organizations.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey Pfeffer
ISBN: 0195114345 9780195114348
OCLC Number: 35262295
Description: viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The development and scope of organization studies --
Understanding the causes of behavior --
Five models of behavior --
The effects of organizational composition --
Mechanisms of social control --
Developing and exercising power and influence --
Organizational performance --
Organizations from a critical theory perspective --
New directions for organization theory.
Responsibility: Jeffrey Pfeffer.
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Abstract:

In New Directions for Organization Theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a comprehensive analysis and overview of the field of organization theory and its research literature. This work traces the evolution of organization studies, particularly its more recent history, and highlights the principle concepts and controversies characterizing the study of organizations.

Pfeffer argues that the world of organizations has changed in several important ways, including the increasing externalization of employment and the growing use of contingent workers; the changing size distribution of organizations, with a larger proportion of smaller organizations; the increasing influence of external capital markets on organizational decision-making and a concomitant decrease in managerial autonomy; and increasing salary inequality within organizations in the US compared both to the past and to other industrialized nations. These changes and their public policy implications make it especially important to understand organizations as social entities. But Pfeffer questions whether the research literature of organization studies has either addressed these changes and their causes or made much of a contribution to the discussion of public policy.

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