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Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Sociological theories
ISBN : 0367821168
This book reveals the enduring relevance of Weber's thought by challenging the notion that with the apparent triumph of freedom, contemporary Western societies have escaped from Weber's 'iron cage'.
Author : Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Conformity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021824409
Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351977616
At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory promise. But we are living in a different time now, when the conditions under which we live seem to be quite different from the ones that pertained in Weber's day. It is a time when, in some respects at least, life seems to be freer and more conducive to experimentation, which has led some people to conclude that our societies have escaped from Weber's "cage." But is that really true? This book challenges that notion, considering the consequences for our way of life of the triumph of neoliberalism as a political force.
Author : Walter W. Powell,Paul J. DiMaggio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226185941
Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis. In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science, and locate the "institutional" approach in relation to major developments in contemporary sociological theory. Several chapters consolidate the theoretical advances of the past decade, identify and clarify the paradigm's key ambiguities, and push the theoretical agenda in novel ways by developing sophisticated arguments about the linkage between institutional patterns and forms of social structure. The empirical studies that follow—involving such diverse topics as mental health clinics, art museums, large corporations, civil-service systems, and national polities—illustrate the explanatory power of institutional theory in the analysis of organizational change. Required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of organizations, the volume should appeal to scholars concerned with culture, political institutions, and social change.
Author : Joel Baum,Frank Dobbin
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0762306610
There is a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the relationships between economic and sociological approaches to strategic management.
Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610270571
Foundational study of how institutions work and how leadership promotes them. Often cited in many fields and consistently assigned to classes in a variety of departments -- including sociology and business, and executive training in management and military leadership -- this book is considered to have virtually created the modern field of institutional-leadership management. It is still recognized as a lively and accessible presentation of the institutionalist school's answer to traditional "rationalist" approaches. Selznick's analysis goes beyond efficiency and traditional loyalty: he examines the more nuanced variables of effective leadership of organizations in business, education, government, the military, and labor. Quality, authorized ebook format includes linked notes and Contents and embedded pagination from print editions for continuity of referencing and classroom adoptions across all platforms.
Author : Catherine Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351480604
This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described The Iron Cage as ""an example of the history of ideas at its very best""; while Robert A. Nisbet said that ""we learn more about Weber's life in this volume than from any other in the English language.""Weber's life and work developed in reaction to the rigidities of familial and social structures in Imperial Germany. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. It is the triumph of Professor Mitzman's approach that he convincingly demonstrates how the internalizing of these severe experiences led to Weber's pessimistic vision of the future as an ""iron cage"" and to such seminal ideas as the notion of charisma and the concept of the Protestant ethic and its connection with the spirit of capitalism. The author's thesis also serves as a vehicle for describing the social, political, and personal plight of the European bourgeois intellectual of Weber's generation.In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. As Lewis Coser writes in the preface, until now ""there has been little attempt to bring together the work and the man, to show the ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly.
Author : Frank Dobbin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691049069
Dobbin presents twenty classic, representative articles in the field of economic sociology and organizes them according to four themes. He thus introduces the field and its history to students and establishes a schema for interpreting the field based on what it hopes to achieve.
Author : Patrice Flynn,Virginia A. Hodgkinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461505334
One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.
Author : Leopold Ringel,Petra Hiller,Charlene Zietsma
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787438293
The classical concept of organizations as solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged. This volume examines why, examines the impact of these changes on organizations and offers conceptual and empirical insights.
Author : Martin Albrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134820658
This book argues that adequate explanation of the way that organizations function for those engaged in business and those who study it must transcend the traditional divide between reason and emotion.
Author : Michael J Handel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761987665
In introducing this reader comprising three dozen articles and critiques in organizational sociology, Handel (sociology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) overviews definitional issues over the term organization as viewed by rational theories and open systems theories. Starting with classic theories of bur
Author : Mary Godwyn,Jody Hoffer Gittell
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412991957
A collection of both classic and contemporary studies of organizations that is designed around competing theoretical frameworks, this book examines organizations with attention to structure and objectives interactions among members and among organizations, the relationship between the organization and its environment, and the social significance or social meaning of the organization.
Author : Elizabeth Popp Berman,Catherine Paradeise
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1785608312
Universities are under pressure. Their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased and demographic shifts are changing higher educational needs. This volume provides a cross-national picture of how the university as an organization is reacting to, adapting to, and threatened by a period of intense pressure.
Author : Lindsay Buroker
Publisher : Lindsay Buroker
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn’t the model of military professionalism—he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship—but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron—what’s he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives… Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people. Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade—her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she’s one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander’s trust. But lying isn’t her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he’ll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.
