This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational, natural, and open systems; environments, strategies, and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in corporations and international business, and business strategists.

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (5th Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott, W. Richard

Social Sciences

Taylor&Francis

This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational, natural, and open systems; environments, strategies, and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in corporations and international business, and business strategists.

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives

Business Culture

Routledge

This clear, intellectually engaging introduction reviews the field of organization studies—its past, its present and its likely areas of significant future development. Specifically, it surveys the development of rational, natural and open systems—from earlier to contemporary forms—and provides a framework to allow students to comprehend past and present theories and to understand current controversies. While attending to the contributions of other disciplines to the understanding of organizations, the approach taken is primarily sociological. The arguments are addressed not only to current and future managers, but to anyone who is obliged to live and work in a society dominated by organizations.

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (4th Edition)

Sociology

PRENTICE/HALL

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles. This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and relate them to both the sociodemographic trends in the Bay Area and to shifts in regulatory systems and policy environments at local, state, and national levels. But this is more than a social history; the authors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives—including strategic management, population ecology, and institutional theory—to examine five types of healthcare organizations through quantitative data analysis and illustrative case studies. Providing a thorough account of changes for one of the nation's leading metropolitan areas in health service innovation, this book is a landmark in the theory of organizations and in the history of healthcare systems.

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations : From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

History

Ruef, Martin

Caronna, Carol A.

Mendel, Peter J.

Americas

University of Chicago Press

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles. This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these changes in detail and relate them to both the sociodemographic trends in the Bay Area and to shifts in regulatory systems and policy environments at local, state, and national levels. But this is more than a social history; the authors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives—including strategic management, population ecology, and institutional theory—to examine five types of healthcare organizations through quantitative data analysis and illustrative case studies. Providing a thorough account of changes for one of the nation's leading metropolitan areas in health service innovation, this book is a landmark in the theory of organizations and in the history of healthcare systems.

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Metropolis and Region

Duncan, Otis Dudley

Duncan, Beverly

Leiberson, Stanley

Ams Pr Inc

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory is the first comprehensive study of quality management to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis. The contributors are at the forefront of assessing new quality approaches, how they work, and the conditions under which they are effective. The book bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of recent developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge current theories.

Cole, Robert E.

Sage Publications, Inc.

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory is the first comprehensive study of quality management to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis.The contributors are at the forefront of assessing new quality approaches, how they work, and the conditions under which they are effective. The book bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of recent developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge current theories.

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Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (5th Edition)

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (4th Edition)

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations : From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations : From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

Metropolis and Region

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory