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Institutions and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
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Product Description
Thoroughly revised and expanded, Institutions and Organizations provides a comprehensive overview of the institutionalist approach to organization theory. Dick Scott presents a historical overview of the theoretical literature, an integrative analysis of current institutional approaches, and a review of empirical research related to institutions and organizations. He offers an extensive review and critique of institutional analysis in sociology, political science, and economics as it relates to recent theory and research on organizations.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #262226 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"The research inputs to his analysis communicate the high intellectual energy and excitement that pervades contemporary research on institutions and organizations."
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"The research inputs to his analysis communicate the high intellectual energy and excitement that pervades contemporary research on institutions and organizations."
(Joel A.C. Baum Contemporary Sociology )
About the Author
W. Richard (Dick) Scott (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of Business, School of Education, and School of Medicine, Stanford University. He has spent his entire professional career at Stanford and served as the founding director of the Stanford Center for Organizations Research. He is the author of many articles and more than a dozen scholarly books, including two widely used texts in the area of organizations: an early book, Formal Organizations (1962), coauthored with Peter M Blau, and the more recent volume, Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems (1981/1987/1992/1998), now in its 4th edition. Scott is a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was the recipient in 1988 of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Management and Organization Theory Division of the Academy of Management. In 1996, he received the Richard D. Irwin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management from the Academy of Management.
