Introduction -- 1. A conceptual framework for describing the phenomenon of new venture creation -- 2. Did River City really need a boy's band -- 3. The Oz in organization -- 4. "Who is an entrepreneur?" is the wrong question -- 5. Properties of emerging organizations -- 6. A taxonomy of new...

Contents: Part I: An alternative theory of the firm -- 1. Why we need an alternative theory of the firm and its environment -- Part II: The firm and its environment -- 2. What is a firm? -- 3. What is an environment? -- 4. Modification and matching -- Part III: Explaining adaptation -- 5. The...

Contents: 1. New themes in institutional analysis : topics and issues from European research / Georg Krücken, Renate E. Meyer and Peter Walgenbach -- 2. The value of institutional logics / Roger Friedland -- 3. What are institutional logics and where is the perspective taking us? / Christina...

1. Introduction -- 2. The trust process -- 3. Governance seen from a framing point of view : the employment relationship and relational signalling -- 4. Trust and power as means of coordinating the internal relations of the organization : a conceptual framework -- 5. Calculativeness, trust and...

pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...

Foreword by Richard Swedberg -- 1. Presentation and premises -- 2. Engaging in theorizing -- 3. Looking at something : behind the scenes -- interviewing Karl Weick -- 4. Finding your academic family -- 5. Making a contribution -- 6. Key points and practices -- References -- Index.

1. Organizing beyond management and market -- 2. Institutional products -- 3. Institutional actors -- 4. Institutional movements -- 5. Societal trends -- 6. From elements in the environment to organizational practice -- 7. The institutional environment and organizational change.

Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated...

Managing Value-Based Organizations argues that those who fail to understand management history are destined to repeat it. Research has shown that despite the prodigious output of management books, managers still have little idea why there is so much change in the world of work or what they can...

In Human Nature and Organization Theory, Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto challenges the conventional wisdom that (organizational) economics is an amoral and empirically incorrect science. He treads new ground regarding the behavioural portrayal of human nature in organization theory