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It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies … researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book Industrial Organization. At the time of her …
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It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies …Intro -- Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of … organizations -- The initial reception of industrial organization: theory and practice -- Joan Woodward and the technological …
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Groups and teams are the backbone of modern organizations and the driving force behind innovation. Employees come together to pool their efforts, join forces, develop creative ideas, and make decisions in one key social context: the workplace meeting. This volume presents novel perspectives and...
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The recent growth in research on the topic of evolutionary novelties inspired this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations. While previous sociological work has done an admirable job of understanding selection and differentiation processes, it has widely ignored the origin of...
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There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at the institutional level with which organizations must contend. In the United States especially, this belies our history of marking organizations and...
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"Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small. Students of all interests-those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their...
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This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the Tensions and Paradoxes in Temporary Organizing. Temporary organizing is a widespread phenomenon that continues to grow in importance, and reflects the uncertainty resulting from competition in globalized markets.
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