Derek S. Pugh (editor)
Organization Theory: Selected Classic Readings (5th edition)
London: Penguin Books, 2007.

How do organizations work and why do people within them behave as they do?

This invaluable resource book provides the answers, bringing together the selected writings of leading authorities on the cutting edge of thinking, practice and research in organization theory. Spanning ninety years from classic writings such as Henri Fayol's Principles of Management, F.W. Taylor's Scientific Management and Max Weber's analysis of bureaucratic functioning to the latest organizational thinking represented by Gareth Morgan, Peter Senge and Charles Handy. New writers for this edition include Stuart Clegg, Lex Donaldson, Kathleen Eisenhardt and Michel Foucault.

Contents

Introduction to the Fifth Edition

Part One: The Structure of Organizations

1. M. Weber (1924)
Legitimate Authority and Bureaucracy

2. D.S. Pugh (1973)
Does Context Determine Form?

3. O.E. Williamson (1985)
The Modern Corporation

4. C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal (1987)
The Transnational Organization

5. C. Handy (1995)
The Virtual Organization

Part Two: The Organization in its Environment

6. T. Burns (1963)
Mechanistic and Organismic Structures

7. P.R. Lawrence and J.W.Lorsch (1967)
High-performing Organizations in Three Environments

8. J. Pfeffer and G.R. Salancik (1978)
The Design and Management of Externally Controlled Organizations

9. R.E. Miles and C.C. Snow (1984)
Organizational Fit

10. M.T.Hannen and J. Freeman (1977)
The Population Ecology of Organizations

11. G. Hofstede (1980)
Do American Theories of Organization Apply Abroad?

Part Three: Management and Decision-making

12. H. Fayol (1916)
General Principles of Management

13. F.W. Taylor (1912)
Scientific Management

14. H. Mintzberg (1975)
The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact

15. R.M. Kanter (1979)
Power Failure in Management Circuits

16. J.G. March (1976)
The Technology of Foolishness

Part Four: People in Organizations

17. E. Mayo (1949)
Hawthorne and the Western Electric Company

18. F. Hertzberg (1966)
The Motivation-Hygiene Theory

19. E.H. Schein (1993)
Career Anchors

20. K.E. Weick (1988)
Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations

21. C. Argyris (1985)
Defensive Routines

Part Five: Organizational Change and Learning

22. P.J. DiMaggio and W.W. Powell (1983)
Insitutional Isomorphism

23. Andrew Pettigrew (1987)
Context and Action in the Transformation of the Firm

24 P. Senge. (1990)
Building Learning Organizations

25. G. Morgan (1993)
Imaginization: On Spider Plants

26. T. Peters (1994)
Creating the Curious Corporation

Part Six Further Work

27. Michel Foucault (1975)
The Means of Correct Training

28. Stewart R. Clegg (1990)
Modernist and Post-Modernist Organization

29. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1989)
Making Fast Strategic Decisions in High-Velocity Environments

30. Lex Donaldson (2001)
Neo-Contingency Theory

Acknowledgements

Author Index

Subject Index

Adopted as a set book by Open University Course B201: Business Organizations and their Environments

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