Organization: rational, natural, and open systems. /
Richard Scott W.
- 5th ed.
- New Jersey: Prentice Halll, 2003.
- xv, 430 p.: ill.; 23cm.
Includes index and references.
Contents: An Introduction to organizations: The subject is organization -- Three perspectives on organizations: Organizations as rational systems -- Organizations as natural systems -- Organizations as open systems -- Combining the perspectives -- Environments, strategies,and structures: Conceptions of environments -- Creating organizations -- Boundary setting and boundary spanning -- Sources of structural complexity: the technical core -- Sources of structural complexity: The peripheral components -- Goals, power, and control -- Organizations and society: Organizational pathologies -- Organizational effectiveness.