First published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is a business classic: one of the most influential books about business organizations ever published. Challenging the received wisdom that there is "one best way" to manage, it sounded the death knell of classical management theory and provided something lasting in its place: a way of looking at organizations that allowed for different contexts, different markets, and different rates of technological change. The book's famous typology of organizations as mechanistic vs. organic has proved timeless, as relevant today as more than thirty years ago. This edition includes a new preface by Tom Burns that situates the work in its historical and current contexts and offers his reflections, years later, on the ideas that changed the way people thought about organizations. (view table of contents)

Seven basic concepts are applied to specific types of organizational problems, and pertinent theoretical literature and source material are surveyed. Bibliogs (view table of contents)

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Puts forward suggestions on marketing, production, finance, purchasing, taxes, accounting, insurance, and other aspects of operating a small business

Describes how political and social trends in the U.S. have hindered the development of planned change, and suggests how managers can anticipate and cope with change

Shows how to evaluate new concepts, prepare effective presentations, overcome the resistance to change, and master the basic tactics of persuasion

Organization research has little value if its findings have no chance of being used. The authors isolate and discuss key issues in conceptualizing and carrying out research that is intended to be of practical help. They offer numerous ideas and exercises and the fully developed case of a research project in which hoped-for implementation did not happen.

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Product Description: Organizations both make and implement policy, and policy is most often directed at organizations. Yet the complex interaction between policy and organization is not often studied. The essays in this volume apply the insights of organization studies to the study of policy...read more