The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities
The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities

Author: Darren Halpin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1137514310

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This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research. Multiple authors from different countries and from different perspectives contribute their analysis of this research program.

Organizational Ecology
Organizational Ecology

Author: Michael T. HANNAN

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0674038282

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Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals.

Dynamics of Organizational Populations
Dynamics of Organizational Populations

Author: Michael T. Hannan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0195071913

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This study aims to broaden the general understanding of change in organizational populations by examining the dynamics of numbers of organizations in populations. The authors examine labour unions, newspapers, publishing, brewing firms, life insurance companies and banks.

Organizational Behavior 2
Organizational Behavior 2

Author: John B. Miner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1317463552

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This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in the macro-organizational behavior field. John Miner has identified the key theories that any student or scholar needs to understand to be considered literate in the discipline. Each chapter includes the background of the theorist represented, the context in which the theory arose, the initial and subsequent theoretical statements, research on the theory by the theory's author and others (including meta-analysis and reviews), and practical applications. Special features, including boxed summaries of each theory at the beginning of each chapter; two introductory chapters on the scientific method and the development of knowledge; and detailed, comprehensive references, help make this text especially useful for every student and scholar in the field.

Communities and Organizations
Communities and Organizations

Author: Chris Marquis

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-11-23

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1780522851

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Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities.

The Institutions of the Market
The Institutions of the Market

Author: Alexander Ebner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0199231427

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Where do markets come from and what drives their evolution? How do organizations cope with the competitive dynamism of markets? What is the role of governance mechanisms in the institutional coordination of markets? In this book, leading social scientists consider these questions and examine the institutional foundations of economic change.

Studying Organization
Studying Organization

Author: Stewart R Clegg

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-04-29

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0857022113

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In response to the needs of lecturers, the acclaimed Handbook of Organization Studies has been made available as two major paperback textbooks. In this, the first of a two-volume paperback edition of the landmark Handbook of Organization Studies, editors Stewart Clegg and Cynthia Hardy survey the field of organization studies. Studying Organization is an ideal textbook around which to build courses on organization theory and research methodology. Central to the enterprise has been a concern to reflect and honour the manifest diversity of the field, including recognition of the extent to which the very notion of a single field of organization studies is debated. Part One locates the study of organization by reviewing some of the most significant theoretical paradigms to have shaped our understanding. The second part reflects on the relationships between theory and research in organization studies.

The External Control of Organizations
The External Control of Organizations

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 080474789X

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This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty.