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We live in a highly organizational world. As consumers, clients, customers or, perhaps most significantly in the workplace, we depend on formal organizations. How do such organizations work and why do people within them behave the way they do?

This invaluable resource book provides the answers, bringing together the selected writings of leading authorities on the cutting edge of the thinking, practice and research of organization theory. Spanning seventy years, from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureacratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by C. Handy and T. Peters, Organization Theory is now in its fourth edition and has been thoroughly revised, with almost half of the present selection representing new contributions on the subject. New writers include C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, K. E. Weick, P. J. DiMaggio and W. W. Powell, A. Pettigrew, P. Senge and G. Morgan.

There are five separate but highly interrelated sections, each with a short introduction to the readings selected: organization structure, the organization in its environment, management and decision-making, people in organizations and organizational change and learning. Together with its companion volume, Writers on Organizations,, written by Derek S. Pugh and Derek J. Hickson, Organization Theory has become an indispensable classic for student and manager alike.

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