The Iron Cage Revisited

Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367821166
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Cage Revisited written by R. Bruce Douglass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the enduring relevance of Weber's thought by challenging the notion that with the apparent triumph of freedom, contemporary Western societies have escaped from Weber's 'iron cage'.

Author : Paul DiMaggio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Cage Revisited written by Paul DiMaggio and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel Baum
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780762306619
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management written by Joel Baum and published by JAI Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the relationships between economic and sociological approaches to strategic management.

Author : Walter W. Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618594X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis written by Walter W. Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis. In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science, and locate the "institutional" approach in relation to major developments in contemporary sociological theory. Several chapters consolidate the theoretical advances of the past decade, identify and clarify the paradigm's key ambiguities, and push the theoretical agenda in novel ways by developing sophisticated arguments about the linkage between institutional patterns and forms of social structure. The empirical studies that follow—involving such diverse topics as mental health clinics, art museums, large corporations, civil-service systems, and national polities—illustrate the explanatory power of institutional theory in the analysis of organizational change. Required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of organizations, the volume should appeal to scholars concerned with culture, political institutions, and social change.

Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135197761X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Cage Revisited written by R. Bruce Douglass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory promise. But we are living in a different time now, when the conditions under which we live seem to be quite different from the ones that pertained in Weber's day. It is a time when, in some respects at least, life seems to be freer and more conducive to experimentation, which has led some people to conclude that our societies have escaped from Weber's "cage." But is that really true? This book challenges that notion, considering the consequences for our way of life of the triumph of neoliberalism as a political force.

Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610270576
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership in Administration written by Philip Selznick and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational study of how institutions work and how leadership promotes them. Often cited in many fields and consistently assigned to classes in a variety of departments -- including sociology and business, and executive training in management and military leadership -- this book is considered to have virtually created the modern field of institutional-leadership management. It is still recognized as a lively and accessible presentation of the institutionalist school's answer to traditional "rationalist" approaches. Selznick's analysis goes beyond efficiency and traditional loyalty: he examines the more nuanced variables of effective leadership of organizations in business, education, government, the military, and labor. Quality, authorized ebook format includes linked notes and Contents and embedded pagination from print editions for continuity of referencing and classroom adoptions across all platforms.

Author : Leopold Ringel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787438295
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations? written by Leopold Ringel and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical concept of organizations as solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged. This volume examines why, examines the impact of these changes on organizations and offers conceptual and empirical insights.

Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312906559
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Space Merchants written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Ross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135148060X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Cage written by Catherine Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described The Iron Cage as ""an example of the history of ideas at its very best""; while Robert A. Nisbet said that ""we learn more about Weber's life in this volume than from any other in the English language.""Weber's life and work developed in reaction to the rigidities of familial and social structures in Imperial Germany. In his youth he was torn by irreconcilable tensions between the Bismarckian authoritarianism of his father and the ethical puritanism of his mother. These tensions led to a psychic crisis when, in his thirties, he expelled his father (who died soon thereafter) from his house. His reaction to the collapse of the European social order before and during World War I was no less personal and profound. It is the triumph of Professor Mitzman's approach that he convincingly demonstrates how the internalizing of these severe experiences led to Weber's pessimistic vision of the future as an ""iron cage"" and to such seminal ideas as the notion of charisma and the concept of the Protestant ethic and its connection with the spirit of capitalism. The author's thesis also serves as a vehicle for describing the social, political, and personal plight of the European bourgeois intellectual of Weber's generation.In synthesizing Weber's life and thought, Arthur Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. As Lewis Coser writes in the preface, until now ""there has been little attempt to bring together the work and the man, to show the ways in which Weber's cognitive intentions, his choice of problems, were linked with the details of his personal biography. Arthur Mitzman fills this gap brilliantly.

Author : Frank Dobbin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691049068
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Economic Sociology written by Frank Dobbin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dobbin presents twenty classic, representative articles in the field of economic sociology and organizes them according to four themes. He thus introduces the field and its history to students and establishes a schema for interpreting the field based on what it hopes to achieve.