The Blackwell Companion to Organizations [Hardcover]

Joel A. C. Baum (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0631216944 | ISBN-13: 978-0631216940 | Publication Date: March 19, 2002

Drawing on the research of more than 50 influential international scholars, this extensive interdisciplinary survey consolidates and evaluates what is known and not known about organizations, and critically examines how we learn about and study them.

• Contributors include 50 influential international scholars.
  
• Contributions represent the most important contemporary perspectives on organizations, including networks, ecology and technology.
  
• Each topic is covered at three levels of organization: intraorganizational, organizational, and interorganizational.
  
• Chapters structured around five common elements for ease of use.

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"The book is absolutely outstanding! It is an intellectual tour de force by a stellar cast of more than 50 superb scholars. It achieves the impossible - both tremendous breadth and depth on the most important topics in organization theory today. No serious student of organizations can possibly do without this book." Christine Oliver, York University

"The quality of the contributors and the intelligence of the comprehensive editorial framework assure that we have, at last, a worthy successor to March's classic Handbook of Organizations (1965). The commitment to a common enterprise, the connections constructed across levels of analysis, and a devotion to cumulative knowledge are welcome attributes of this valuable collection." W. Richard Scott, Stanford University

"Baum has brought together a diverse and wily asemblage of authors to write a coherent book of the state of the art of organizations. The chapters show that organization studies has a defined frontier and research program." Bruce Kogut, University of Pennsylvania

"...the volume reaches beyond its espoused role as a "companion" and provides a bold statement that we believe will help guide the next generation of organizational theory scholars and spark disquiet (and perhaps consternation) among organizational researchers who are at the margins of this movement." Administrative Science Quarterly

Book Description

This extensive interdisciplinary survey consolidates & evaluates what is known & not known about organizations, & critically examines how we learn about & study them.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 960 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (March 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631216944
• ISBN-13: 978-0631216940
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,483,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review onThe Blackwell Companion to Organizations., October 24, 2011

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I am a PhD. student at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. At present I carrying out my research in the engineering field, specifically on eco-innovation. Now I am studying a subject called Organization and Strategy Theory which it is part of my PhD programme. I have found this book excellent, it offers the the possibility to understand deeply the different organization perspectives. I recommend it for those interested in having a good comprehension on the ways the organization had been seen and evolved.