Outlines the history and findings of modern organization theory as of the late 1950s, focusing on such topics as organizations as social institutions, classical organization theory, motivation, conflict, rational decision making, planning and innovation. Beginning with the classical organization...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...