The sociology of organizations : classic, contemporary, and critical readings / editor, Michael J. Handel

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Bureaucracy and Legitimate Authority (1924) / Max Weber 2 The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) / Frederick W. Taylor 3 The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974) / Harry Braverman 4 The Management of Innovation (1961) / Tom Burns, G. M. Stalker 5 Technology and Organization (1965) / Joan Woodward 6 The Measurement of Organization Structures (1973) / D. S. Pugh 7 The Hawthorne Experiments (1941) / George C. Homans 8 Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker, and Class Bias in Psychology (1981) / Dana Bramel, Ronald Friend 9 The Human Side of Enterprise (1957) / Douglas McGregor 10 From Control to Commitment in the Workplace (1985) / Richard E. Walton 11 A Different Kind of Company: From Control to Commitment in Practice (2002) / Saul A. Rubinstein 12 Inside a Japanese Transplant: A Critical Perspective (1993) / Laurie Graham 13 Conflicts Between Staff and Line Managerial Officers (1950) / Melville Dalton 14 The World of Corporate Managers (1988) / Robert Jackall 15 Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Market Capitalism (1979) / Michael Burawoy 16 Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969) / Graham Allison 17 Organizations and Oligarchy (1915) / Robert Michels 18 The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (1978) / Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald R. Salancik 19 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (1983) / Paul DiMaggio, Walter Powell 20 Density-Dependent Processes (2000) / Glenn R. Carroll, Michael T. Hannan 21 Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior. Agency Costs and Ownership Structure (1976) / Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling 22 The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach (1981) / Oliver E. Williamson 23 Markets, Hierarchies, and Hegemony (1981) / Charles Perrow 24 The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism (1984) / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 25 Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization (1990) / Walter W. Powell 26 Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility (1994) / Bennett Harrison 27 Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation (1992) / Gideon Kunda 28 Men and Women of the Corporation (1977) / Rosabeth Moss Kanter 29 Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder But Out on a Limb (1997) / Sharon Collins 30 Segmented Labor Markets (1979) / Richard Edwards 31 The Access Process: Loopholes as a System (1992) / Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, Denise Scott 32 Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies (1984) / Charles Perrow 33 Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations: The Challenger Launch Decision (1998) / Diane Vaughan 34 The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models (1979) / Joyce Rothschild-Whitt 35 Worker Ownership, Participation, and Control: Toward a Theoretical Model (2002) / William Foote Whyte, Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas Lynn Kruse 36 Street-Level Bureaucracy (1980) / Michael Lipsky References Index About the Editor