From agency theory to power and politics, this indispensable guide to the key concepts of organization theory is your compass as you navigate through the often complex and abstract theories about the design and functioning of organizations.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Agency Theory
• Alienation
• Authority
• Bureaucracy
• Business Strategy
• Complexity Science
• Contested Exchange Theory
• Control
• Cooperativism
• Corporate Governance
• Decision Making
• Discourse in Organizations
• Environmental Uncertainty
• Environment-Organization Interaction
• Flexibility
• Globalization
• Industrial Democracy
• Institutional Theory
• Labor Process Theory
• Life Cycle Models
• Materiality
• Organization Structure and Design
• Organizational Change
• Organizational Culture
• Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
• Organizational Space
• Postmodern Turn and Organization Studies
• Power and Politics
• Scientific Management
• Stakeholder Theory
• Storytelling and Narrative Research
• Structuration Theory
• Systems Theory
• Technology and Organization Structure
• Transaction Cost Economics