Permanently Failing organizations
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Permanently Failing organizations
Sage Publications, c1989
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Bibliography: p. 163-178
Includes indexes
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Description
In this volume, the authors closely examine performance and draw on both sociology and economics to explain why some organizations perform well and others perform badly. They first separate the concept of organizational performance from that of organizational persistence. Then they develop a provocative theory of why - and how - organizations tend towards failure and how they survive in spite of it. Meyer and Zucker contend that management plays a critical role in the movement towards or away from poor performance, yet persistence is determined by the often competing interests of owners, managers, workers and the public.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Paul DiMaggio
Introduction
Four Cases of Permanent Failure
Performance and Persistence in Organizational Theory
Performance and Persistence
The Results of Research
Toward a Theory of Permanent Failure
Organizational Responses to Permanent Failure
Permanent Failure and the Sociology of Organizations
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