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Grandori, Anna (contributor) - 2013

pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...

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Managing value-based organizations : it's not what you think

Hoag, Bruce - 2006

Managing Value-Based Organizations argues that those who fail to understand management history are destined to repeat it. Research has shown that despite the prodigious output of management books, managers still have little idea why there is so much change in the world of work or what they can...

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Human nature and organization theory : on the economic approach to institutional organization

Wagner-Tsukamoto, Sigmund - 2003

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 behavioural portrayal of human nature in organization theory

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Organizations and archetypes

Kostera, Monika - 2012

Archetypes are common patterns containing hidden images of human motivations, offering inspiration and awakening imagination. This book is a collection of such tales, connected to twelve organizational archetypes, where each is illustrated by more general theoretical reflections, current...

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Meta-organizations

Ahrne, Göran - 2008

A growing number of organizations are meta-organizations; rather than individuals they have other organizations as their members. This comprehensive book explains, in-depth, the unique way in which meta-organizations function, how they differ from organizations with individual membership, and...

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Relational perspectives in organizational studies : a research companion

Özbilgin, Mustafa (contributor); … - 2006

The contributors to this highly innovative and authoritative research companion, leading experts in their field, apply relational analyses to different areas of organization studies and provide a comprehensive review of the relational perspectives. The book features empirical, theoretical,...

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Organizations, markets and imperial formations : towards an anthropology of globalization

Mir, Raza A. (contributor); … - 2009

The imperial formations of globalization / Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Vanessa C.M. Chio and Raza Mir -- On "cultural" knowledge in international management textbooks : a postcolonial reading / Martin Fougère and Agneta Moulettes -- Sustainable development in the age of natural capitalism :...

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The economics of organisation and bureaucracy

Jackson, Peter M. - 2013

This authoritative and in-depth collection presents seminal papers from leading academics in the field of organisation … international organisation, organisational culture and behaviour, power politics and authority, as well as organisational … institutions and practices. Professor Jackson has chosen works which have shaped the views of how the economics of organisation and …

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Entrepreneurship as organizing : selected papers of William B. Gartner

Gartner, William B. - 2016

Introduction -- 1. A conceptual framework for describing the phenomenon of new venture creation -- 2. Did River City really need a boy's band -- 3. The Oz in organization -- 4. "Who is an entrepreneur?" is the wrong question -- 5. Properties of emerging organizations -- 6. A taxonomy of new...

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An autecological theory of the firm and its environment

Jones, Colin - 2017

Contents: Part I: An alternative theory of the firm -- 1. Why we need an alternative theory of the firm and its environment -- Part II: The firm and its environment -- 2. What is a firm? -- 3. What is an environment? -- 4. Modification and matching -- Part III: Explaining adaptation -- 5. The...

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