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Organizations and Society

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Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small. Students of all interests-those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their importance in the contemporary social order-will benefit from the insights of this text.
PART I: Our Society of Organizations Chapter 1: Introduction: A Society of Formal Organizations Chapter 2: The Subject Is Organizations. The Issue Is Power Chapter 3: Organizations and Inequality PART II: Forging the Society of Organizations Chapter 4: The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Efficiency Chapter 5: The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Power Chapter 6: Are We Beyond Bureaucracy? Part III: Analyzing Organizations Chapter 7: The Machine Organization Chapter 8: The Human Organization Chapter 9: The Open Organization Chapter 10: The Limits of Rationality Chapter 11: Rationality and Rationalization as Variables Chapter 12: Final Reflections: Living With Organizations
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