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When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns /

This book examines four aspects of organisational failure - organisational, political, cognitive and structural. Using real-life examples, the contributors look at various issues to differentiate between failure as a process and as an outcome.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anheier, Helmut K., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, Ã1999.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; Organizational Failures, Breakdowns and Bankruptcies
  • Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton; An Introduction; PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS AND FAILURE; Costly Information
  • Lynne G Zucker and Michael R Darby; Firm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent Failure; Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure
  • David Wilson, David J Hickson and Susan J Miller; How Organisations Can Overbalance; "Tales from the Grave"
  • Mark Hager et al; Organizations' Accounts of Their Own Demise; Organizational Coping, Failure, and Success
  • Renate Mayntz; Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe; PART THREE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCY; Successful Failure
  • Wolfgang Seibel; An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Veiled Politics
  • Kevin J Delaney; Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; The Politics of Blame Avoidance
  • Mark Bovens et al; Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime-Fighting Fiasco; Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue
  • Terence C Halliday and Bruce G Carruthers; Professionalization of Insolvency; PART FOUR: THE COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF FAILURE; Prosaic Organizational Failure
  • Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow; Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance
  • Marshall W Meyer; PART FIVE: STRUCTURAL FAILURES; Success and Failure in Institutional Development
  • Frank P Romo and Helmut K Anheier; A Network Approach; Stalemate
  • Helmut K Anheier and Frank P Romo; A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; PART SIX: CONCLUSION; Studying Organizational Failures
  • Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton.