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Title

Human nature and organization theory : on the economic approach to institutional organization / Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto.

Author

Wagner-Tsukamoto, Sigmund.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2003.

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Description

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "In Human Nature and Organization Theory, Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto challenges the conventional wisdom that (organizational) economics is an amoral and empirically incorrect science. He treads new ground regarding the behavioral portrayal of human nature in organization theory."
• "The book focuses on the works of Taylor, Simon and Williamson, reconstructing methods and variables of their organization theories in non-behavioral, institutional economic terms. Implications for institutional economic theory building and practical intervention with institutional organization are outlined. The book suggests that the image of human nature in organizational economics has to be deduced from theoretical and practical outcomes of economic analysis rather than from methods of economic analysis. If this is considered, organizational economics can make considerable moral claims, since it can generate socially desirable interaction outcomes even in the face of pluralism."
• "This volume will appeal to a wide cross-section of organizational researchers, and also deserves to be widely read by economists, business ethics researchers and business historians."--Jacket

Series Statement

New horizons in management

Uniform Title

New horizons in management.

Subject

• Simon, Herbert Alexander 1916-2001
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow 1856-1915
• Williamson, Oliver E. 1932-2020
• Organizational sociology
• Organizational behavior
• Employee motivation
• Psychology, Industrial
• Human behavior
• Psychology, Industrial
• Behavior
• human behavior
• Employee motivation
• Human behavior
• Organizational behavior
• Organizational sociology
• Menschenbild
• Organisationstheorie
• Organisationsverhalten
• Organisatiesociologie
• Organisatiegedrag
• Motivatie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-253) and index.

Contents

A question of method and approach: In search of human nature in organization research? -- Beyond realism: Problem dependence and research heuristics -- Economic versus behavioral approaches to organization research: A brief introduction -- Portraying or not portraying human nature in organization theory: Methodical issues, economic reconstruction and practical relevance -- A non-behavioral economic approach to institutional organization: Contribution-distribution interactions, interest equilibration and the incentive-compatibility of the situation -- Theoretical-practical concepts (I): Incentive structures and the analysis of the incentive-compatibility of the situation -- Theoretical-practical concepts (II): Capital exchange and the analysis of organizational behavior as capital contribution-distribution interactions -- Heuristic concepts (I): Dilemma structures and the situational analysis of nonzero-sum interdependence in social interactions -- Heuristic concepts (II): Economic man and the situational analysis of self-interested, utility-maximizing choice -- Behavioral approaches to institutional organization: Towards a 'science of human nature'? -- The quest for holism and interdisciplinarity: Behavioral sciences drifting into philosophy -- Traditional organizational psychology: The analysis of motivation as a problem of individual behavior -- Heuristic aspects of modeling human nature in behavioral research -- Effectiveness limits of moral-behavioral organization theory.

ISBN

• 1840647140
• 9781840647143
• 9781781951347
• 1781951349

LCCN

2002072181

OCLC

• ocm49903252
• 49903252
• SCSB-8803763

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library