Contributors
Oliver E. Williamson: Introduction
1: Barbara Levitt and James G. March: Chester I. Barnard and the
Intelligence of Learning
2: W. Richard Scott: Symbols and Organizations: From Barnard to the
Institutionalists
3: Glenn R. Carroll: On the Organizational Ecology of Chester I.
Barnard
4: Jeffrey Pfeffer: Incentives in Organizations: The Importance of
Social Relations
5: Mary Douglas: Converging on Autonomy: Anthropology and
Institutional Economics
6: Terry M. Moe: The Politics of Structural Choice: Toward a Theory
of Public Bureaucracy
7: Oliver Hart: An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the
Firm
8: Oliver E. Williamson: Chester Barnard and the Incipient Science
of Organization
9: Oliver E. Williamson: Transaction Cost Economics and
Organization Theory
Index
Oliver E. Williamson is also co-author of The Nature of the Firm (OUP, 1991)
"Each essay is of high quality, offering both introspective summary
and creative projection."--Choice
"First-rate people gave the lectures, and what they have to say is
important to all of us concerned with the field."--Contemporary
Sociology
"An intriguing array of chapters written by well-known
scholars...each of which relates its message back to Barnard and
forward, extending some aspect of organization theory....Perhaps
the volume's most important contribution is its insistence that
students of organizations become interdisciplinary
scholars."--Academy of Management Review
"Organization Theory gives evidence that the study of organizations
has been proceeding productively."--Journal of Economic
Literature
"Each essay is of high quality, offering both introspective summary
and creative projection."--Choice
"First-rate people gave the lectures, and what they have to say is
important to all of us concerned with the field."--Contemporary
Sociology
"An intriguing array of chapters written by well-known
scholars...each of which relates its message back to Barnard and
forward, extending some aspect of organization theory....Perhaps
the volume's most important contribution is its insistence that
students of organizations become interdisciplinary
scholars."--Academy of Management Review
"Organization Theory gives evidence that the study of organizations
has been proceeding productively."--Journal of Economic Literature
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