Managing Organizations : Current Issues

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Pub. Date: 1999-06-22
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

In Managing Organizations Stewart Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord explore the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as diversity, globalization and ecology. Students and teachers of management will find this a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on the core issues for contemporary managers and organizations.

Author Biography

Stewart R. Clegg is Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Cynthia Hardy is Professor and Head of the Department of Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia Walter R. Nord is Professor of Management at the University of South Florida

Table of Contents

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter R Nord
Creative Deconstruction - Richard Whipp
Strategy and Organizations
Leadership in Organizations - Alan Bryman
Decision-Making in Organizations - Susan J Miller, David J Hickson and David C Wilson
Cognitions in Organizations - Anne E Tenbrunsel et al
Diverse Identities in Organizations - Stella M Nkomo and Taylor Cox Jr
Putting Group Information Technology in Its Place - Arthur D Shulman
Communication and Good Work Group Performance
Metaphors of Communication and Organization - Linda L Putnam, Nelson Phillips and Pamela Chapman
Organizations, Technology and Structuring - Karlene H Roberts and Martha Grabowski
Organizing for Innovation - Deborah Dougherty
Organizational Learning - Karl E Weick and Frances Westley
Affirming an Oxymoron
Organizations and the Biosphere - Carolyn P Egri and Lawrence T Pinfield
Ecologies and Environments
Evolution and Revolution - Barbara Parker
From International Business to Globalization

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