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Informationen zum Autor Lex Donaldson is Professor of Organizational Design at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales. His publications include American Anti-Management Theories of Organization: A Critique of Paradigm Proliferation (1995) and In Defence of Organization Theory: A Reply to the Critics (1985). Klappentext Organization theory is presently dominated by theories of strategic choice and politics. Managers are seen as exercising a wide choice and maximizing their personal self-interest through complex power struggles. This stimulating volume challenges these views, arguing instead that managerial decisions are determined by the situation and serve the interests of the whole organization. Showing that organizations follow laws which generalize across organizations of many different kinds in many different national cultures, the book rejects the model of organizational configurations or types. The author offers a critical assessment of leading organization theorists such as Henry Mintzberg, John Child, Michael Hannan and Danny Miller - and also of the satirist Northcote Parkinson. Zusammenfassung Confronts the post-positivist theories of strategic choice and politics! and reasserts the validity of positivist and functional organization theory. This volume demonstrates the serious flaws! at both theoretical and empirical levels! in the political and strategic choice accounts of organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Positivist Organization Theory For Determinism Against Strategic Choice For Determinism Subjective Factors in Strategic Choice For Functionalism Against Politics and `Parkinson¿s Law¿ For Functionalism The Validity of Blaüs Theory For Cartesianism Against Organization Types and Quantum Jumps For Generalization in Positivist Organization Theory For Generalization of Organizational Size Conclusions ...
