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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
Ã1999.
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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.