This `goldmine of concepts for understanding business and industrial organization' was originally published in 1959 but had a powerful influence on economists and business strategists ever since. The author combines rigorous theory with close observation of the real business world, and writes simply but with an original approach. Her focus on teams and organizational knowledge underlines contemporary discussion of 'organizational competences' and she has written a new introduction which assesses the book's impact and describes the subsequent development of her own ideas.

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the Year
With apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society is neither the state, nor the commune, nor the party; it is the company. From this bold premise, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chart the rise of one of history’s great catalysts for good and evil.
In a “fast-paced and well-written” work (Forbes), the authors reveal how innovations such as limitations on liability have permitted companies to rival religions and even states in importance, governing the flow of wealth and controlling human affairs–all while being largely exempt from the rules that govern our lives.
The Company is that rare, remarkable book that fills a major gap we scarcely knew existed. With it, we are better able to make sense of the past four centuries, as well as the events of today.

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, "The External Control of Organizations" has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories. The "External Control of Organizations" explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. As the authors contend, "it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable." Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty. This seminal book established the resource dependence approach that has informed so many other important organization theories.

This book provides the original and definitive treatments of such fundamental concepts as bounded rationality, attention focus, and problem solving.

The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence brings together the writing of one of the best--known academics in the field of decision making and organizational theory.

一位妇女丢掉了手机，但征召了一群志愿者将其从盗窃者手中夺回。一个旅客在乘坐飞机时领受恶劣服务，她通过自己的博客发动了一场全民运动。在伦敦地铁爆炸案和印度洋海啸中，公民们用可拍照手机提供了比摄影记者更完备的记录。世界上最大的百科全书是由管理甚少的参与者们撰写的……
不论在何处，你都能看见人们走到一起彼此分享，共同工作，或是发起某种公共行动。一部集众人之力的百科全书、一个丢失手机的传奇，这些事情看上去似乎没有什么联系，但它们乃至更多事情的影响实际上有着共同的根基：在人类历史上第一次，我们的交流工具支持群体对话与群体行动。聚集一群人并使之行动原本对资源有极高的要求，使得全世界范围内的群体努力都被置于一种制度的垄断之下。今天，全球分享与合作的工具终于交到了个体公民的手中。
如同印刷机放大了个人的头脑，电话加强了双向沟通，一系列新工具如即时通信、移动电话、网络日志和维基百科也强化了群体交流。因为人类天生就擅长群体工作，所有能够强化群体努力的东西终会改变社会。商业模式以一种令人头晕目眩的速度被改变，更大的社会影响达到极为深刻的程度，以致我们无法认识。现在一个拥有笔记本电脑的人可以掀起一场颠覆10亿美元产业的运动。
在本书中，克雷·舍基，一个新文化的最敏锐的观察者，对此种社会革命的后果——无论是好是坏——给予了明晰而富有穿透力的解析，并思考了我们是谁，我们可以做什么。

当今世界的组织机构正在经历一场革命。正如这本《第五项修炼》的接力之作所揭示的，世界各地的许多公司都正在引领大胆的变革。为创建一个繁荣和可持续的世界，它们正在从维持“一如往常”发展路径的手段和伎俩的死胡同里跳出来，转向根本变革的战略和策略。它们要走的路还很长，但回避和否认现实的阶段已经结束。今天，最具创新精神的领导者已认识到，为了企业的未来，也为了世界的未来，必须对我们的生活和工作方式进行革命性的而不仅仅是渐进式的变革。
《必要的革命》这本书收集了大量富有启迪的真实故事，描述了世界各地积极应对社会和环境问题的个人和组织的经历。这包括社会各层面的普通人如何转变了自己的企业和社区，他们如何通过跨界合作，探索史无前例的解决方案，并把它落实到实际当中，因而超越了处于“不像以前那么坏”的应付状态，进入了创新的轨道，并在相互依赖性不断增加的世界里，增长生机活力。故事包括瑞典“绿区”的演变发展过程，美国铝业公司节水目标的建立，通用电气公司的绿色畅想计划，以及第七代公司把广告工作转变为青年领导的社会变革项目的经历。
本书的核心是给个人和组织提供各类战略和策略，包括具体的思考方法和应用工具，以帮助我们建立信心和能力，来有效应对时代的最大挑战。本书对我们所有人都是一个必要的指南——我们要认清共同行动、协同工作的必要性，认清必须现在就行动起来：为我们自己和子孙后代，开创一个可持续发展的世界。

Mr. Barnard has made a masterly contribution in his realistic treatment of such topics as informal organization, incentives, and the moral aspects of leadership.
--Harvard Business Review

From the ranks of the country's leading executives comes a major contribution to the understanding of our society... The author presents an analysis of the nature of business organizations and the functions of executives in them. He has been able to stand apart from the minutiae 0f his everyday experiences and to view them as part of the orderly functioning of the organization as a whole ... The work has important implications, for it points the 'way to the development of more effective co-operative systems and at the same time to the developiiient and communication of the executive techniques essential to such systems.
--The American Journal of Sociology

One of the contemporary classics on administration. It has contributed a great deal to organization theory. Often quoted, it is a basic work by a successful executive.
--Business Management

Alchian has made important contributions to the economic analysis of inflation and unemployment and to the theory of costs and of the firm. He has played the leading role in the development of a theory of property rights. His writing is distinguished by his ability to disentangle the essential from the trivial and, above all, by his skill in showing how the same basic economic forces are at working in a wide variety of apparently completely different social settings.

Ronald Burt describes the social structure theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third individual as entrepreneur, the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes in relation to market transactions.

Analyzes the essential problems of human organizations--the motivation to work, the resolution of conflict, the exercise of leadership, and the creation of organizational change. Examines the relations between organizations and their environments, the effect of organizational demands and opportunities on individual health, and the experimental development of organizational alternatives to conventional bureaucratic structure. Applies theoretical principles to concrete organizational problems, illustrating with research findings.

Behavioural Theory of the Firm has become a classic work in organizational theory, and is one of the most significant contributions to improving the theory of the firm. This second edition includes new material which puts the original text in a contemporary context.

Book is a synthesis of the empirical literature currently available on organizational structuring. A framework is developed enabling students to handle organizational problems. For use as a supplement in upper level Organizational Design courses in Management.

The relationship between theory and practice, research and action, is fundamental to all fields of applied social science. Should research findings and knowledge be useful for science, practice, and policy? If so, how should such research be designed, carried out and disseminated to achieve the twin goals of rigor and relevance? These challenges are particularly relevant in the applied areas of management and organization studies where there is a distinct responsibility for researchers to engage with the 'real world'. In this carefully crafted and thoughtful book, leading management researcher Andrew Van de Ven both presents the broad intellectual challenge of 'engaged scholarship', and also sets out a clear framework and guidelines for carrying out soundly based and useful research for advancing both science and practice. At a time when some may question the value and status of academic knowledge; and others, contrastingly, urge a closer relationship between researchers and research users - be they businesses, governments or other institutions - the challenge of engaged scholarship is as relevant as ever, and there is a real need for the thoughtful and considered approach offered by Van de Ven. The book both provides a manifesto for engaged scholarship in the social sciences, and clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable reference point and guide for academics, researchers and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world.