E-grāmata: Writers on Organizations

Introduction to the Sixth Edition		vii
1. The Structure of Organizations		1
Max Weber		4
Derek Pugh and the Aston Group, Including John Child and David Hickson		8
John Child		13
David Hickson		14
Lex Donaldson		17
Alfred D. Chandler		23
Oliver E. Williamson		28
Henry Mintzberg		32
Charles Handy		39
Stewart Clegg		44
Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal		49
2. The Organization in Its Environment		55
Tom Burns		57
Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch		61
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik		66
Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow		70
Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman		76
Geert Hofstede		80
Richard Whitley		88
3. Management and Decision Making in Organizations		95
Henri Fayol		97
Frederick W. Taylor		102
Peter F. Drucker		106
Michel Foucault		110
Herbert A. Simon		115
James G. March		118
Karl E. Weick		123
4. People in Organizations		129
Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Investigations		131
Rensis Likert and Douglas McGregor		135
Edgar H. Schein		140
Frederick Herzberg		144
Eric Trist and the Work of the Tavistock Institute		149
Rosabeth Moss Kanter		156
5. Organizational Change and Learning		163
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell		165
Andrew Pettigrew		169
Chris Argyris		175
Peter Senge		178
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt		182
Gareth Morgan		188
Index		195
About the Authors		201

Derek S. Pugh is Emeritus Professor of International Manage-ment 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 Acad-emy 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. David J. Hickson is Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organization at Bradford School of Management, England. His prin-cipal research interests are how societal culture affects managerial decision making in different nations and what influences the success of major decisions. His previous research has included processes of mana-gerial decision making, power in organizations, and bureaucratization. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the international research journal Organization Studies; a founder of the European research association in his field, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); and a founding member of the British Academy of Management. He has held appointments in university business schools and research institutes in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands, has an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Umea in Sweden, and has lectured widely around the world. He has published numerous research journal papers and book chapters and is author or editor of eight books, most recently Management in Western Europe (1993, DeGruyter) and Management Worldwide: Distinctive Styles Amid Globalization ( enhanced ed, 2001, Penguin Books, with Derek S. Pugh). Prior to becoming an academic, David Hickson worked in financial administration and qualified profes-sionally as a chartered secretary and in personnel management.