Discovering Organizations

Robin Burrow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284746-1 (ISBN)

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This is a book about organizations. It is about how we humans work together and get things done in more or less purposeful and systematic ways - from corporations and factories to social clubs and activist groups to market merchants and organized crime.

Discovering Organizations is recommended as core reading by module leaders who seek an engaging, thought-provoking introduction to organizational theory and organization studies. This text operates as a springboard to help readers appreciate the complexity of organization and then have the confidence to delve deeper by reading a range of additional texts, articles, and cases.

"Our capacity for organization is quite remarkable. I think the organizations we build are among our greatest achievements ... My aim in writing this book is to help people better understand the organizations that surround them and how they work ... by starting at the literal beginning - with where, when, and why we humans started to get organized and the sort of organizations we established." -- Robin Burrow

As well as building students' understanding of how we have organized ourselves in the past, and how we organize ourselves now, this textbook looks optimistically to the future of organizations. It will aim to provoke and appeal to students' enthusiasm and excitement about what the future may hold for organizations with down-to-earth and relevant examples.

Dr. Robin Burrow is a Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies at the University of York in the School for Business and Society. Burrow's research is concerned with the lived realities of work in extremely challenging organizational contexts.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Special Thanks
1: Humans and Organizations
PART 1: The Big Four
2: Public Organizations
3: Private Organizations
4: Informal Organizations
5: Criminal Organizations
PART 2: How Organizations Work
6: Record-Keeping, Rules and the Invention of Bureaucracy
7: Formality, Rationality, and Organizations
8: Power, Control and the Motivation to Work
9: Resistance and the Informal Side of Organizations
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	17 Photos, 1 Figure, 5 Tables
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	131 x 199 mm
Gewicht	296 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10	0-19-284746-5 / 0192847465
ISBN-13	978-0-19-284746-1 / 9780192847461
Zustand	Neuware