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| Introduction | |
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| A Chronology of Organization Theory | |
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| Classical Organization Theory | |
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| Socrates Discovers Generic Management: Xenophon (1869) | |
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| Of the Division of Labour: Adam Smith (1776) | |
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| On the Division of Labour: Charles Babbage (1832) | |
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| Superintendent's Report: Daniel C. McCallum (1856) | |
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| The Engineer as an Economist: Henry R. Towne (1886) | |
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| General Principles of Management: Henri Fayol (1916) | |
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| The Principles of Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1916) | |
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| Bureaucracy: Max Weber (1946) | |
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| Notes on the Theory of Organization: Luther Gulick (1937) | |
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| Neoclassical Organization Theory | |
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| The Proverbs of Administration: Herbert A. Simon (1946) | |
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| Foundations of the Theory of Organization: Philip Selznick (1948) | |
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| Theories of Bureaucracy: James G. March and Herbert A. Simon (1958) | |
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| A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives: Richard M. Cyert and James G. March (1959) | |
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| The Organizational Behavior Perspective, or Human Resource Theory | |
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| The Giving of Orders: Mary Parker Follett (1926) | |
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| A Theory of Human Motivation: A. H. Maslow (1943) | |
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| The Human Side of Enterprise: Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) | |
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| That Urge to Achieve: David C. McClelland (1966) | |
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| Intervention Theory and Methods: Chris Argyris (1970) | |
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| Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost: Irving L. Janis (1971) | |
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| "Modern" Structural Organization Theory | |
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| Mechanistic and Organic Systems: Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker (1961) | |
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| The Concept of Formal Organization: Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott (1962) | |
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| Organizational Choice: Product versus Function: Arthur H. Walker and Jay W. Lorsch (1968) | |
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| Organization-Environment Interface: Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch (1969) | |
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| The Matrix Organization--Who Needs It?: Stanley M. Davis and Paul R. Lawrence (1977) | |
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| Five Basic Parts of the Organization: Henry Mintzberg (1979) | |
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| In Praise of Hierarchy: Elliott Jaques (1990) | |
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| Systems, Contingency, and Population Ecology Organization Theory | |
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| Organizations and the System Concept: Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn (1966) | |
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| Organizations in Action: James D. Thompson (1967) | |
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| General Systems Theory: Applications for Organization and Management: Fremont E. Kast and James E. Rosenzweig (1972) | |
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| Information Processing Model: Jay Galbraith (1973) | |
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| A Concept of Organizational Ecology: Eric Trist (1977) | |
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| The Population Ecology of Organizations: Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977) | |
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| Multiple Constituencies/Market Organization Theory | |
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| Organizational Effectiveness: A Multiple-Constituency Approach: Terry Connolly, Edward J. Conlon, and Stuart Jay Deutsch (1980) | |
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| Values in Organizational Theory and Management Education: Michael Keeley (1983) | |
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| External Influences on Managers: Ian Mitroff (1983) | |
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| Understanding the Employment Relation: Oliver E. Williamson (1975) | |
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| Power and Politics Organization Theory | |
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| Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making: Jeffrey Pfeffer (1981) | |
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| Sources of Power of Lower Participants in Complex Organizations: David Mechanic (1962) | |
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| Leadership in an Organized Anarchy: Michael D. Cohen and James G. March (1974) | |
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| Power Failure in Management Circuits: Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979) | |
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| Organization Development: A Political Perspective: Anthony T. Cobb and Newton Margulies (1981) | |
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| The Power Game and the Players: Henry Mintzberg (1983) | |
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| Organizational Culture and Symbolic Management Organization Theory | |
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| Defining Organizational Culture: Edgar H. Schein (1985) | |
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| The Making of an Organizational Saga: Burton R. Clark (1970) | |
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| Organizations as Culture-Bearing Milieux: Meryl Reis Louis (1983) | |
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| Organizations As Shared Meanings: Linda Smircich (1983) | |
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| Cultural and Competing Perspectives in Administrative Theory and Practice: Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1984) | |