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Handel, Michael J. (ed.). The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003. Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
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I. Organizations as Rational Systems I: Classic Theories of Bureaucracy and Administration

A. Early Definitions of Organization and Management

1. Max Weber, „Legitimate Authority and Bureaucracy“ (1924)

B. Scientific Management and the Treatment of Labor

2. Frederick W. Taylor, „Scientific Management“ (1911)

Critique

3. Harry Braverman, „Scientific Management“ and „The Primary Effects of Scientific Management“ (1974)

II. Organizations as Rational Systems II: Contingency Theory and the Discovery of Organizational Variation

4. Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker, „Mechanistic and Organic Systems“ (1963)
5. Joan Woodward, „Technology and Organization“ (1965)
6. D.S. Pugh, „Does Context Determine Form?“ (1973)

III. Organizations as Human and Social Systems I: The Impulse to Reform Work
A. The Early Human Relations Movement

7. George C. Homans, „The Western Electric Researches“ (1941)

Critique

8. Dana Bramel and Ronald Friend, "Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker, and Class Bias in Psychology" (1981)

B. Humanistic Management and Contemporary Employee Involvement

9. Douglas McGregor, „The Human Side of Enterprise“ (1957)
10. Richard Walton, „From Control to Commitment in the Workplace“ (1985)
11. Saul Rubinstein, "A Different Kind of Company: From Control to Commitment in Practice" (2001)

Critique

12. Laurie Graham, „Inside a Japanese Transplant: A Critical Perspective“ (1993)

IV. Organizations as Human and Social Systems II: Informal Organization as Shadow Structure

13. Melville Dalton, „Conflicts Between Staff and Line Managerial Officers“ (1950)
14. Robert Jackall, „The Social Structure of Managerial Work“ (1989)
15. Michael Burawoy, „Thirty Years of Making Out“ (1979)

V. Rationality and Non-Rationality in Organizational Decision Making

16. Graham Allison, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis" (1969)

VI. Power Inside Organizations

17. Robert Michels, „Oligarchy“ (1915)

VII. Organizations as Open Systems: Organizations and Their Environments

A. Resource Dependency Theory

18. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik, "The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective" (1978)

B. Institutional Theory

19. Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, „The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields“ (1983)

C. Population Ecology

20. Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan, „Density-Dependent Processes“ (2000)

VIII. Economic Theories of Organizations

21. Michael Jensen and William Meckling, „Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure“ (1976)
22. Oliver Williamson, „The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach“ (1981)

Critique 23. Charles Perrow, "Markets, Hierarchy, and Hegemony" (1981)

IX. Modern Business Organizations: From Big Business to Post-Fordism?

A. Alfred Chandler’s Account of the Rise of Big Business

24. Alfred D. Chandler, „The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism“ (1984)

B. Post-Bureaucratic Alternatives to Big Business

25. Walter Powell, "Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization" (1990)

Critique

26. Bennett Harrison, "Lean and Mean" (1994)

XI. Organizations and Society: Gender, Race, Class, and Politics

28. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, „Numbers: Minorities and Majorities“ (1977)
29. Sharon Collins, „Black Mobility in White Corporations“ (1997)
30. Richard Edwards „Segmented Labor Markets“ (1979)
31. Dan Clawson and Alan Neustadtl, „The Access Process: Loopholes as a System“ (1989)

XII. Organizational Deviance

32. Charles Perrow, "Normal Accidents" (1984)
33. Diane Vaughan, "Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations: The Challenger Launch Decision" (1998)

XIII. Alternatives to Capitalist Bureaucracy: Worker Ownership and Self-Management

34. Joyce Rothschild-Whitt, „The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models“ (1979)
35. William Foote Whyte, Joseph Blasi, and Douglas Kruse, „Worker Ownership, Participation, and Control: Toward a Theoretical Model“ (2001)

XIV. Government, Non-Profit Agencies, and Voluntary Associations

36. Michael Lipsky, "Street-Level Bureaucracy" (1980)



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