Building Theories of Organization
Building Theories of Organization

Author: Linda L. Putnam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-01-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135619808

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This volume explores the concept of communication as it applies to organizational theory. Bringing together multiple voices, it focuses on communication’s role in the constitution of organization. Editors Linda L. Putnam and Anne Maydan Nicotera have assembled an all-star cast of contributors, each providing a distinctive voice and perspective. The contents of this volume compare and contrast approaches to the notion that communication constitutes organization. Chapters also examine the ways that those processes produce patterns that endure over time and that constitute the organization as a whole. This collection bridges different disciplines and serves a vital role in developing dimensions, characteristics, and relationships among concepts that address how communication constitutes organization. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in organizational communication, organizational studies, management, sociology, social collectives, and organizational psychology and behavior.

Building Theories of Organization
Building Theories of Organization

Author: Linda L. Putnam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-01-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1135619794

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This volume explores the concept of communication as it applies to organizational theory. Bringing together multiple voices, it focuses on communication’s role in the constitution of organization. Editors Linda L. Putnam and Anne Maydan Nicotera have assembled an all-star cast of contributors, each providing a distinctive voice and perspective. The contents of this volume compare and contrast approaches to the notion that communication constitutes organization. Chapters also examine the ways that those processes produce patterns that endure over time and that constitute the organization as a whole. This collection bridges different disciplines and serves a vital role in developing dimensions, characteristics, and relationships among concepts that address how communication constitutes organization. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in organizational communication, organizational studies, management, sociology, social collectives, and organizational psychology and behavior.

Theories of Organization
Theories of Organization

Author: Henry L. Tosi

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1412924995

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Includes excerpts from seminal works and summaries of key theoretical models that form the basis of the field of organization theory.

Organizational Behavior 2
Organizational Behavior 2

Author: John B. Miner

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780765615251

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"The sequel to Organizational Behavior: Essential Theories of Motivation and Leadership (2005) provides a review and analysis of the key theories of macro-organizational behavior. It provides background on scientific method, theory construction and evaluation, measurement considerations, research design, and the nature of knowledge in organizational behavior, and discusses theories in areas including decision-making, systems, and organizational sociology. The text assumes prior studies in fields such as organizational behavior and management." -- Publisher.

Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline

Author: Michael Barzelay

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 178811910X

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While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that public management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in public management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of public management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum development and disciplinary identity.

Leadership Styles, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Digitalization
Leadership Styles, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Digitalization

Author: Do?ru, Ça?lar

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1799811107

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Leaders are the most important element of an organization in regards to reaching organizational goals, motivating followers to perform better, and creating an innovative work environment. To conform with successful corporate social responsibility implementations, social entrepreneurship practices have gained more importance with the development of digital technology. Leadership Styles, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Digitalization is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of business organizations operating in a global, complex environment. While highlighting topics such as business ethics, operations management, and social capital, this publication explores recent technological advances and the methods of the latest management skills and techniques. This book is ideally designed for human resources professionals, managers, leaders, executives, CEOs, specialists, consultants, researchers, students, and professors seeking current research on human resources management and management information systems in a digital society.

Organizational Behavior I
Organizational Behavior I

Author: John B. Miner

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780765621832

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First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

American Anti-Management Theories of Organization
American Anti-Management Theories of Organization

Author: Lex Donaldson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-16

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521479172

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This book offers a critique of recent developments in the study of organizational structure in the USA. There has been a profusion of new paradigms offered in the USA and this has fragmented the field. Many of these paradigms share an anti-management quality, painting managers in an increasingly negative light. This book examines five major, contemporary US organizational theories: population-ecology, institutional, resource dependence, agency and transaction cost economics. Each of these theories and their attendant research is critically examined and severe problems are identified in either theoretical coherence or empirical validity. Lex Donaldson argues that it is possible to reintegrate the field by taking structural contingency theory as the core theory and adding on to it selective propositions from the newer paradigms. He also offers suggestions for needed reforms in the US academic cultural and institutional system.

Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication
Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication

Author: Anne M. Nicotera

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1351336274

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Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, explaining and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization. It provides a set of literature reviews on focused topics written by experts in each area, and links organizational communication theory and research to practice. In reviewing foundational management theory, the book analyzes how early to mid-20th-century management theories shaped contemporary organizations, providing students both with background knowledge of these foundational theories and an understanding of their influence on our thinking and our organizational world. Written at an accessible level for early graduate students, yet still sophisticated enough for doctoral students, the book is ideal for students and teachers of organizational communication and communication history. Downloadable ancillary materials include chapter PowerPoints and a set of instructors' materials containing chapter abstracts, glossaries, discussion questions, annotated supplementary readings lists, and practitioners' corners. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781138570313.

Introduction to Business
Introduction to Business

Author: Lawrence J. Gitman

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-16

Total Pages: 1455

ISBN-13:

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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.