This concise overview of the institutionalist approach to organization theory provides an historical overview of theoretical literature, an integrative analysis of current institutional approaches, and a review of empirical research related to institutions and organizations.
Finally, the book evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.
"A best seller in its first edition, Institutions and Organizations has been thoroughly revised and expanded. This second edition provides a comprehensive overview of the institutionalist approach to organization theory.
Institutions and Organizations
Successful organizations must engage in power-projects. Such is the overarching argument of this volume, a collection of papers by many of the world's leading social scientists and organizational scholars.
This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.
Why isn't the whole world developed? This toolkit for institutional analysis explains how rules affect the performance of countries, firms, and even families.
The second edition of the bestselling The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism has been thoroughly revised with new chapters added, bringing together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory.
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Tari B. Vickery was heavily involved in ... Matthew D. Solomon assisted with the historical study of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic and the Stanford Medical Center. A number of individual scholars made important contributions in our ...
This book is an introduction to the study of international organizations in the field of International Relations directed toward students in the discipline.