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Tables of Contents for Classics of Organization Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
10
A Chronology of Organization Theory
11
18
Classical Organization Theory
29
67
Socrates Discovers Generic Management
38
2
Xenophon
Of the Division of Labour
40
6
Adam Smith
Superintendent's Report
46
2
Daniel C. McCallum
The Engineer as an Economist
48
4
Henry R. Towne
General Principles of Management
52
14
Henri Fayol
The Principles of Scientific Management
66
14
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Bureaucracy
80
6
Max Weber
Notes on the Theory of Organization
86
10
Luther Gulick
Neoclassical Organization Theory
96
53
The Economy of Incentives
101
11
Chester I. Barnard
The Proverbs of Administration
112
15
Herbert A. Simon
The Foundations of the Theory of Organization
127
11
Philip Selznick
A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives
138
11
Richard M. Cyert
James G. March
Human Resource Theory, or the Organizational Behavior Perspective
149
54
The Giving of Orders
156
7
Mary Parker Follett
A Theory of Human Motivation
163
13
Abraham H. Maslow
The Human Side of Enterprise
176
7
Douglas M. McGregor
Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost
183
9
Irving L. Janis
Intergroup Conflict
192
11
Taylor H. Cox, Jr.
``Modern'' Structural Organization Theory
203
51
Mechanistic and Organic Systems
209
5
Tom Burns
G. M. Stalker
The Concept of Formal Organization
214
6
Peter M. Blau
W. Richard Scott
Organizational Choice: Product versus Function
220
12
Arthur H. Walker
Jay W. Lorsch
The Five Basic Parts of the Organization
232
13
Henry Mintzberg
In Praise of Hierarchy
245
9
Elliott Jaques
Systems Theory, Population Ecology, and, Organizational Economics
254
98
Organization Theory: An Overview and an Appraisal
264
10
William G. Scott
Organizations and the System Concept
274
13
Daniel Katz
Robert L. Kahn
Organizations in Action
287
15
James D. Thompson
General Systems Theory: Applications for Organization and Management
302
14
Fremont E. Kast
James E. Rosenzweig
The Population Ecology of Organizations
316
15
Michael T. Hannan
John Freeman
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
331
9
Michael C. Jensen
William H. Meckling
The Ethereal Hand: Organizational Economics and Management Theory
340
12
Lex Donaldson
Power and Politics Organization Theory
352
68
Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making
359
16
Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Bases of Social Power
375
10
John R. P. French, Jr.
Bertram Raven
Leadership in an Organized Anarchy
385
15
Michael D. Cohen
James G. March
Power Failure in Management Circuits
400
12
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Power Game and the Players
412
8
Henry Mintzberg
Organizational Culture and Sense-making
420
65
Defining Organizational Culture
430
12
Edgar H. Schein
Surprise and Sense Making: What Newcomers Experience in Entering Unfamiliar Organizational Settings
442
15
Meryl Reis Louis
Images of Organization
457
6
Gareth Morgan
Gendering Organizational Theory
463
10
Joan Acker
Changing Organizational Cultures
473
12
Harrison M. Trice
Janice M. Beyer
Organizational Culture Reform Movements
485
53
The Z Organization
494
14
William G. Ouchi
In Search of Excellence: Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties
508
5
Thomas J. Peters
Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The Fifth Discipline: A Shift of Mind
513
10
Peter M. Senge
Reinventing Government: Introduction
523
15
David Osborne & Ted Gaebler
Postmodernism and the Information Age
538
69
In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization
547
14
Shoshana Zuboff
Technology as Equivoque: Sensemaking in New Technologies
561
17
Karl E. Weick
Postmodern Thought in a Nutshell: Where Art and Science Come Together
578
14
William Bergquist
Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis: Assessing Systems Concepts in a Government Agency
592
15
L. Douglas Kiel
Reengineering the Corporation: The Enabling Role of Information Technology
607
Michael Hammer
James Champy