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Social Organizations: Interaction Inside, Outside and Between Organizations
Contributor(s): Ahrne, Goran (Author)
ISBN: 0803989210     ISBN-13: 9780803989214
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $71.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior
Dewey: 302.3
LCCN: 94-66307
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 192 pages
 
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In this lively and wide-ranging essay, Göran Ahrne sketches an organizational theory of society. Combining the insights of organization theory with the traditional concerns of social theory, he makes an innovative and creative contribution to both fields.

Using a broad definition of organizations, the author shows that what goes on inside, outside and among organizations is central to understanding social relations. Organizations provide people with resources and motives, and they set the frames for human action. Although organizations do not form societies or systems, society is shaped and changed through interaction between organizations.

Drawing on various schools of organization theory, including institutional, ecologic


Contributor Bio(s): Ahrne, Goran: - Göran Ahrne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Stockholm. His previous publications include Agency and Organization (Sage, 1990). He is a former president of the Swedish Sociological Association.