Organizations
Subtitle: rational, natural, and open systems
By: W. Richard Scott.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Organizational sociology.
Description: This text emphasizes sociological approaches to organizations. It recognizes, summarizes, and comments on the contributions of numerous other disciplines to the study of organizations, including behavioral and institutional economics, political science, strategy, and management theory. Connecting the past with the future of organizational studies, the author gives careful attention to the contribution of early organizational theorists and shows how their work has shaped that of those who followed. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-416) and indexes.