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Theories of Organization

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ISBN-10: 1412924995

ISBN-13: 9781412924993

Edition: 2009

Authors: Henry L. Tosi

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Many students have learned about the theories of organization, not by reading the original works, but by reading discussions of theories in textbooks. This sets the theories in context and provides some useful and important information, but those who take this approach to learning fail to see the more complete underlying theoretical structures, which are set forth clearly in Henry Tosi's Theories of Organization.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Henry Tosi is currently the McGriff Professor of Management Emeritus at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1964. Before coming to Gainesville, he was on the faculty at Michigan State University and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of California-Irvine, Emory University, Cornell University in the United States. He also has held visiting appointments at Luigi Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), LUISS (Rome, Italy), the University of Catania in Sicily, and the University of Modena (Modena, Italy). He has been the President of the Midwest Division of the Academy of Management, a founding member of…    

Overture
-About Theories of Organization
- Assumptions About the Nature of Social Science and Society
Closed System Rational Models
- The Classical Approach: The Fundamentals of Top Management
Closed System Natural Models
The Functions of the Executive
Integrative Approaches to Organization
- Organizations Power and Compliance: Amatai Etzioni's A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations
James D. Thompson's Organizations in Action
Open System Rational Models
Bounded Rationality
- James March and Herbert Simon, Organizations
Contingency Theories
Burns and Stalker, The Management of Innovation
Woodward's Industrial Organization
Organization Analysis: A Sociological Point of View
Henry Mintzberg, The Structuring of Organizations
Economic Approaches
Agency Theory: an Assessment and Overview
Theory of Managerial Capitalism
The Markets and Hierarchies Program of Research: Origins, Implications, Prospects
Open System Natural Models
Selznick's TVA and the Grass Roots
The Population Ecology of Organizations
The Adolescence of Institutional Theory
Critical Theory and Post Modernism
Critical Organizational Theory
-Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions