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9780761903550 Academic Inspection Copy

Performance-Driven Organizational Change

The Organizational Portfolio
  • ISBN-13: 9780761903550
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Lex Donaldson
  • Price: AUD $233.00
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  • Local release date: 27/10/1998
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 152.00mm) 248 pages Weight: 400g
  • Categories: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU]
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Donaldson reconceptualises the organisation as a portfolio with a number of different causes of performa nce, which vary over time. Without a performance crisis it i s likely that needed organisational changes will not be fort hcoming. '
Lex Donaldson is Professor of Organizational Design at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales. His publications include American Anti-Management Theories of Organization: A Critique of Paradigm Proliferation (1995) and In Defence of Organization Theory: A Reply to the Critics (1985).
Positivist Organization Theory / For Determinism: Against Strategic Choice / For Determinism: Subjective Factors in Strategic Choice / For Functionalism: Against Politics and 'Parkinson's Law' / For Functionalism: The Validity of Blau's Theory / For Cartesianism: Against Organization Types and Quantum Jumps / For Generalization in Positivist Organization Theory / For Generalization of Organizational Size / Conclusions
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