Qualitative studies of organizations
By: John Van Maanen, editor.
Contributors: Van Maanen, John.
Series: The Administrative science quarterly series in organization theory and behavior
Publisher: Sage Publications; SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Organizational behavior.; Organizational change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studies of organizational processes. The role of expectations in business decision making / Richard M. Cyert, William R. Dill, and James G. March; title: Intense loyalty in organizations : a case study of college athletics / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler; title: In search of rationality : the purposes behind the use of formal analysis in organizations / Ann Langley; title: Studies of groups in organizations. The macropolitics of organizational change : a comparative analysis of the spread of small-group activities / Robert E. Cole; title: Tightening the iron cage : concertive control in self-managing work teams / James R. Barker; title: Status degradation and organizational succession : an ethnomethodological approach / Robert P. Gephart, Jr.; title: Studies of organizational identity and change. The organizational saga in higher education / Burton R. Clark; title: The reluctant organization and the aggressive environment / John Maniha and Charles Perrow; title: From evangelism to general service : the transformation of the YMCA / Mayer N. Zald and Patricia Denton; title: The creative-destructive process of organizational organizational change : the case of the Post Office / Nicole Woolsey Biggart; title: Studies of the societal and institutional environment. Organizational effectiveness and the institutional environment / Paul M. Hirsh; title: Authority, organization, and societal context in multinational churches / Reed E. Nelson; title: The dynamics of institutionalization : transformation processes in Norwegian fisheries / Petter Holm.