Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited Sixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer's contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today.

Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaitedSixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer’s contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today.

Introduction to the Sixth Edition
1 The Structure of Organizations
Max Weber
Derek Pugh and the Aston Group, including John Child and David Hickson
Lex Donaldson
Alfred D. Chandler
Oliver E. Williamson
Henry Mintzberg
Charles Handy
Stewart Clegg
Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
2 The Organization in its Environment
Tom Burns
Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik
Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow
Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman
Geert Hofstede
Richard Whitley
3 Management and Decision-making in Organizations
Henri Fayol
Frederick W. Taylor
Peter F. Drucker
Michel Foucault
Herbert A. Simon
James G. March
Karl E. Weick
4 People in Organizations
Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Investigations
Rensis Likert and Douglas McGregor
Edgar H. Schein
Frederick Herzberg
Eric Trist and the Work of the Tavistock Institute
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
5 Organizational Change and Learning
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
Andrew Pettigrew
Chris Argyris
Peter Senge
Kathleen Eisenhardt
Gareth Morgan
About the Authors