Why organizations? : how and why people organize
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Why organizations? : how and why people organize
Sage Publications, c1993
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Varför finns organisationer?
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Varfor finns organisationer?
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Translation of: Varför finns organisationer?, c1986
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why do organizations exist? Why cannot the market - that is, free contracts between single buyers and sellers - solve all production and distribution problems? What are the causes behind the rise of industrial enterprises and other hierarchies?
In Why Organizations?, Bengt Abrahamsson raises these and other questions and discusses the conditions for the emergence of hierarchy, bureaucracy and democracy in organizations - and why organizations are needed at all. The framework for his discussion is rationalistic organization theory based on concepts such as rationality, interest, power, form and function, external forces and inner logic, organizational mandators and executives.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Phenomenon of the Organization
The Anarchistic Ideal
The Desire for Non-Organization
Why Organizations?
The Theory of Groups and the Free Rider Problem
Special-Interest Organizations, Monopolies, and the Collective Voice
Outer Forces and Inner Logic
Why Inner Logic? On Transaction Costs and Other Forces that Create Hierarchy
Mastering the Organization
Problems of Bureaucracy and Legitimacy
Form and Function in Organization Theory
A Summarizing Discussion
What is Rationality? On Goal and Value Rationality, Individual and Social Rationality
The Concept of Interest
Subjective and Objective Interests
From the Part to the Whole, and Vice-Versa
The Problem of Aggregation and the Choice of the Unit of Analysis
The Actors in the Organization
Mandator and Executive, Employees and Clients
The Organization Process
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