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Organization theory : critical and philosophical engagements / Tuomo Peltonen.

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Main Author: Peltonen, Tuomo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical management studies (Series)
Subjects:
Organizational sociology.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 Introduction
  • 1.1. Organizational Theories
  • General and Hybrid
  • 1.2. Critical Management Studies
  • 1.3. What Is Theory?
  • 1.4. General Theory
  • 1.4.1. General Theory as Traditions and Paradigms
  • 1.4.2. Paradigms
  • 1.4.3. Traditions as Paradigms
  • 1.5. Theoretical Approaches in This Book
  • ch. 2 Classical Organization Theory
  • 2.1. Practical Classical Theory
  • 2.2. Sociological Branch of Classical Theory
  • 2.3. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 2.3.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 2.3.2. Organizational Management
  • 2.3.3. Relationship between Organization and Environment
  • 2.4. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 3 Cultural Modern Organization Theory
  • 3.1. Development of Modern Organizational Theory
  • 3.2. Cultural Modern Theory
  • 3.3. Human Relations Movement
  • 3.4. Chester Barnard's Cooperative Theory
  • 3.5. Columbia School of Organizational Sociology
  • 3.6. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 3.6.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 3.6.2. Organizational Management
  • 3.6.2.1. Maintaining Organizational Communication
  • 3.6.2.2. Ensuring that Individuals Provide Essential Services
  • 3.6.2.3. Definition of An Organization's Goals and Objectives
  • 3.6.3. Relationship between Organization and Environment
  • 3.7. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 4 Rational Modern Organization Theory
  • 4.1. Decision-Making Theory
  • 4.2. Structural Contingency Theory
  • 4.3. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 4.3.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 4.3.2. Organizational Management
  • 4.3.3. Relationship between Organization and Environment
  • 4.3.3.1. Contingency Factors of an Organization's Operating Environment
  • 4.3.3.2. Adaptation of the Structure to Contextual Environmental Factors
  • 4.4. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 5 Interpretative Organization Theory
  • 5.1. Interpretative Social Theory
  • 5.1.1. Phenomenological Sociology
  • 5.1.2. Hermeneutics
  • 5.1.3. Semiotics
  • 5.2. David Silverman's "The Theory of Organizations"
  • 5.3. Interpretative-Symbolic Approach in Organizational Theory
  • 5.4. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 5.4.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 5.4.2. Organizational Management
  • 5.4.3. Relationship between Organization and Environment
  • 5.5. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 6 Critical Organization Theory
  • 6.1. Harry Braverman and Labor Process Theory
  • 6.2. Critical Theory
  • 6.3. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 6.3.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 6.3.2. Organizational Management
  • 6.3.3. Relationship between Organization and Environment
  • 6.4. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 7 Postmodern Organization Theory
  • 7.1. Theory of Postmodern Organizations
  • 7.2. Poststructuralist Organization Theory
  • 7.3. Interpretation of Substantive Topics
  • 7.3.1. Relationship between Individual and Organization
  • 7.3.2. Organizational Management
  • 7.3.3. Relationship between the Organization and the Environment
  • 7.4. Summary and Discussion
  • ch. 8 Conclusions and Discussion
  • 8.1. Rereading of Classics
  • 8.2. Importance of the Work of Weber
  • 8.3. From Weber to Sorokin
  • 8.4. CMS and the Possibility of a New Eschatology in Organization Theory.

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