Writers on Organizations - Softcover

Pugh, Derek Salman; Hickson, David J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076190476X ISBN 13: 9780761904762

Publisher: Sage Pubns, 1997

Synopsis

Long a best-seller, this eagerly-awaited Fifth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer's contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the cutting edge theories in management today. The clear explanation of complex ideas and the breadth of coverage make this book a valuable resource to a wide audience. The book is completely updated, including the discussion of eight new writers: Charles Handy, Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal, Paul J. DiMaggio, Walter Powell, Andrew Pettigrew, Peter Senge, and Gareth Morgan. Writers on Organizations is an invaluable volume that will be useful for students and professional in many areas including management, organization studies, industrial psychology, public administration, social psychology, sociology, political science, and communication.

About this title

About the Author:

Derek S. Pugh is Emeritus Professor of International Manage­ment at the Open University, United Kingdom, having previously been at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aston, the London Business School, and the Open University Business School. He has been a visiting professor at business schools in France, Germany, Israel, and Italy and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the Italian Academy of Business Administration, and the International Acad­emy of Management. He has served as Chairman and Honorary Vice-President of the Association of Teachers of Management of the United Kingdom and as editor of the newsletter of the British Academy of Management. He is a founding Academician of the British Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton.  

Professor Pugh is joint author and editor of 12 books, including the first three volumes of the Aston research program: PUGH, D.S. (ed.) The Aston Programme, vols 1, 2 and 3, Ashgate(Dartmouth), 1998. His latest books are Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition (2000, Dartmouth Publishing, with David J. Hickson), How to Get a Ph.D. (4th ed., 2005, Open University Press, with Estelle M. Phillips), Management Worldwide (enhanced ed., 2001, Penguin Books, with David J. Hickson), and Anglo-German Business Collaboration: Pitfalls and Potentials (1996, Macmillan, with Dagmar Ebster-Grosz). His edited volume Organization Theory: Selected Classic Readings (5th ed., Penguin Books) appears in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Pubns
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 076190476X
• ISBN 13: 9780761904762
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5