THE EXTERNAL CONTROL OF ORGANIZATIONS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald R. Salancik ( 9780804747899 )

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THE EXTERNAL CONTROL OF ORGANIZATIONS
A RESOURCE DEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE

By:

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald R. Salancik

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Paperback

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080474789X

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9780804747899

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 March, 2003

Series:

Stanford Business Classics

Pages:

336

Description:

This work 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.

Synopsis:

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.

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