Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Organizational change and learning -- Paul J. Dimaggio and Walter W. Powell -- Andrew Pettigrew -- Chris Argyris -- Peter Senge -- Kathleen Eisenhardt -- Gareth Morgan.