Timothy Clark (editor)
Advancement in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997

A collection of essays written to celebrate the distinguished career of Derek Pugh. The papers have been written by eminent former colleagues and collaborators and either re-visit or re-examine past research conducted with Derek Pugh, or, reports on research in which they are currently actively employed.

List of Contents

1. Derek Pugh: His Contribution to the Advancement of Organizational Behaviour, Timothy Clark.


Timothy Clark
Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Durham Business School’

 

PART1 THE ASTON LEGACY

2. The ivory tower in a basement: reminiscences of Aston, David Hickson

3. Derek Pugh: scientific revolutionary in organization studies, Lex Donaldson

4. From the Aston Programme to strategic choice: a journey from concepts to theory, John Child

5. The Aston studies and design causality, Chris Argyris

6. Never mind structure: what about climate? Roy L. Payne

 

PART 2 THE CHANGING NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONS

7. Structural change and the role of taxonomies, C.R.Hinings, Dale Cunningham and Trevor Slack

8. The 'Why?' and 'How?' of organization design, Tom Lupton

9. The co-evolution of contexts and structures: the N-form, Enzo Perrone

10. Organization structure and the transformation of careers, Kerr Inkson

11. Re-thinking organizations, Charles Handy

PART 3 ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE

12. Linking structure to culture, Geert Hofstede

13. Bureaucracy in socialist economic organization and management: the East German experience, Arndt Sorge

14. Children of the system: management in Russia, Moshe Banai

15. The emergence of ethnic Chinese business groups in Pacific Asia, Gordon Redding

PART 4 THE FUTURE OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

16. The double hurdles for management research, Andrew Pettigrew

17. The time dimension in organization research, Frank Heller

18. Distrust in dependence: the ancient challenge of superior-subordinate relations, Violina P. Rindova and William H. Starbuck

19. From a universalist to a polycentric approach in organizational research, Timothy Clark, Dagmar Ebster-Grosz and Geoff Mallory

Publications of Derek S. Pugh

Index

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