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Organizations : rational, natural, and open systems

Title: Organizations : rational, natural, and open systems / W. Richard Scott.
Author: Scott, W. Richard.
Publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1987.

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Description

xvii, 377 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Note

Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 339-361.

Contents

Part one. An introduction to organizations : The subject is organizations. Part two. Three perspectives on organizations : Organizations as rational systems -- Organizations as natural systems -- Organizations as open systems -- Combining the perspectives. Part three. Environments, strategies, and structures : Conceptions of environments -- Creating organizations -- Boundary setting and boundary spanning -- Sources of structural complexity : The technical core -- Sources of structural complexity : The peripheral sectors -- Goals, power, and control -- Organizational pathologies -- Organizational effectiveness.

ISBN

0136418201
9780136418207
0136406653
9780136406655
0136419771
9780136419778

LCCN

86009368

OCLC

ocm13525954
13525954
SCSB-8796095

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Princeton University Library