Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice

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SAGE, 2015 M11 2 - 712 pages
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'Already a classic in its field, Managing and Organizations’ success among teachers and students reflects its comprehensiveness and accuracy. A great handbook from which to teach management’ - Dr Jose Bento da Silva, University of Warwick

A realist's guide to management, the authors capture the complex life of organizations, providing not only an account of theories, but also an introduction to their practice with examples from everyday life and culture discussing the key themes and debates along the way.

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Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
The idea
1
Using Managing and Organizations
Summary 4 Exercises
Additional resources
2
Part Three Managing Organizational Structures and Processes 1 14 Managing Bureaucracy
Thinkers Principles Models 1 Introduction
Origins
foundations
Communities Collaboration Boundaries
Contingency theory
Exporting modern management ideas
Contemporary management models

Managing Organizational Design 6 Design Environment Fit 1
3
4
Exercises
Transformation Instruction Inspiration
6
Part Two Managing Organizational Practices
7
Project
Summary
8
Additional Resources
10
Exercises
Managing
Exercises
Meaning Sensemaking Polyphony
Theories of communication
Managing Social Responsibility Ethically 14 Stakeholders Responsibility Sustainability 1 Introduction
Stakeholder management
Corporate greening
Critical management
Doing
Approaches to business ethics
Summary
Exercises
Additional resources
labour process theory
Summary
Exercises
Additional resources
Managing Beyond Bureaucracy 4 Dysfunctions Institutions Isomorphism
New organizational forms
Summary
Exercises
Additional resources
Managing Globalization 8 Flows Finance People 10 11 12 13 14 11 Glossary 1 Introduction
Defining globalization
Characteristics of globalization
Competitive advantage
Who and what are the globalizers?
Global managers and global jobs
Global rights
Global sustainability
Global winners and losers
Resisting globalization
The dark side of globalization
Organizational learning as paradox?
Exercises
Additional resources
Bibliography
Introduction 2 Rethinking bureaucracies
Index

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Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Stewart R Clegg,Martin Kornberger,Tyrone S. Pitsis
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Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Stewart R Clegg,Professor and Research Director Visiting Professor Stewart R Clegg,Martin Kornberger,Professor Department of Organization Martin Kornberger,Tyrone Pitsis
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Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Stewart R Clegg,Martin Kornberger,Tyrone Pitsis
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About the author (2015)

Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.

Martin Kornberger received his PhD form the University of Vienna in 2002. Currently he works as full time Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Trained as philosopher, he researches and teaches about practices of organizing, strategizing, accounting, and marketing, and explores how they shape, and are shaped by, the economy and society at large.

Bibliographic information

TitleManaging and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
AuthorsStewart R Clegg, Martin Kornberger, Tyrone Pitsis
Edition4, unabridged
PublisherSAGE, 2015
ISBN1473943787, 9781473943780
Length712 pages
  
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