Handbook of Organizational Design: 2: Remodelling Organizations and their Environments - Hardcover

 
9780198272427: Handbook of Organizational Design: 2: Remodelling Organizations and their Environments
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198272421 ISBN 13: 9780198272427
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1981

Synopsis

This comprehensive reference work summarizes and reinterprets research, and suggests applications got the design of organizations. Scholars and professionals, from the United States, Europe, and other countries, present the contributions to organization theory of management science, political science, economics, sociology, systems engineering, psychology, history, and anthropology. The chapters draw examples from a large number of diverse industries and governmental activities, and they discuss design alternatives which should prove valuable for planning, redesign, and the continuing operations of organizations.

Volume 2 focuses on proceses of change within organizations, including control systems, interdepartmental relations, and job design. Contributors also discuss the effects, both planned and accidental, that organizations have upon their environments, and they analyze the relationships between organizations, governments, and societies.

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This comprehensive reference work summarizes and reinterprets research and suggests application to the design of organizations. Scholars and professionals, from the United States, Europe, and other countries, present the contributions to organization theory of management science, political science, economics, sociology, systems engineering, psychology, history, and anthropology.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
1981
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198272421
ISBN 13 
9780198272427
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
558
Editor
Nystrom Paul C., Starbuck William H.