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List of figures | |
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What is Organization Theory? | |
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Why Study Organization Theory? | |
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Theories and theorizing organizations | |
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Concepts and abstraction in theory development | |
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Multiple perspectives | |
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Plan of the book | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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A Brief History of Organization Theory | |
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Organization theory at its inception | |
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Modernist influences on organization theory | |
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Symbolic-interpretive influences | |
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Some postmodern influences | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Core Concepts and Theories | |
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Organization and Environment | |
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Defining the organizational environment | |
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Modernist theories relating organizations to their environments | |
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Symbolic-interpretive environmental analysis | |
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Postmodernism and organization-environment relations | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Organizational Social Structure | |
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Origins of the social structure concept | |
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Modernist theories of organizational social structure | |
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Symbolic-interpretive approaches | |
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Postmodern approaches to social structure | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Technology | |
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Modernist definitions and three typologies | |
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Technology in the symbolic-interpretive perspective | |
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Postmodernism and technology | |
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Combining technology with social structure and environment | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Organizational Culture | |
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What is organizational culture and how did it become part of organization theory? | |
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Modernist approaches to organizational culture | |
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Symbolic-interpretive organizational culture research | |
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Postmodernism and organizational culture | |
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Deconstructing organizational culture | |
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Changing culture | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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The Physical Structure of Organizations | |
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Elements of physical structure | |
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Linking technology, social and physical structure | |
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Physical structure, organizational culture and identity | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Organizational Power, Control and Conflict | |
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Modernist conceptions of power, politics and control | |
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Critical studies of power and control | |
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Feminist and postmodern conceptions of power and control | |
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Organizational conflict in relation to environment, social structure, technology, culture, physical structure and power | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Practical Issues and New Directions in Organization Theory | |
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Theory in Practice | |
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Organizational design | |
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Organizational change | |
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Organizational learning and knowledge management | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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New Directions in Organization Theory | |
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The paradigm wars, revisited | |
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Critical realism | |
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Complexity theory | |
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Network theories of organizing | |
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Organizational identity | |
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The aesthetics of organizations and organizing | |
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Summary | |
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Key terms | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Further reading | |
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Index | |