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Understanding Organizations: Theories and Images
Contributor(s): Staber, Udo (Author)
ISBN: 1849207402     ISBN-13: 9781849207409
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $208.05  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior
- Business & Economics | Negotiating
Dewey: 302.35
Physical Information: 280 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Understanding Organizations: Theories and Images introduces students to the key principles of understanding, designing, and managing organizations in an accessible and practical way. The book provides a conceptual toolkit containing the essential models, theories and concepts needed for working in, managing and evaluating organizations.

Key Features:

  • Insightful anecdotes discuss how for- and not-for profit organizations fit within our current society from a social and economic perspective.
  • Theoretical framework and multi-perspective approach focuses on economics, institutionalism and evolution theory highlighting the relationship between organizations, employees and the broader society.
  • Research-focused approach analyses organizational phenomena in light of recent studies.

This textbook is ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates studying general management, organizational theory, organizational design, and organizational sociology.

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Contributor Bio(s): Staber, Udo: - Before retiring, Udo Staber was a Professor of Organizational Studies at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is now an independent scholar, living in New York and Rome