Derek Pugh & David J. Hickson 
Writers on Organizations 

Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited
Sixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer’s contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today.

Daftar Isi

Introduction to the Sixth Edition

1 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

2 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

3 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

4 People in Organizations

Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Investigations

Rensis Likert and Douglas Mc Gregor

Edgar H. Schein

Frederick Herzberg

Eric Trist and the Work of the Tavistock Institute

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

5 Organizational Change and Learning

Paul J. Di Maggio and Walter W. Powell

Andrew Pettigrew

Chris Argyris

Peter Senge

Kathleen Eisenhardt

Gareth Morgan

About the Authors

Tentang Penulis

David J. Hickson is Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organization at Bradford School of Management, England. His prin­cipal research interests are how societal culture affects managerial decision making in different nations and what influences the success of major decisions. His previous research has included processes of mana­gerial decision making, power in organizations, and bureaucratization. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the international research journal Organization Studies; a founder of the European research association in his field, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); and a founding member of the British Academy of Management. He has held appointments in university business schools and research institutes in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands, has an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Umea in Sweden, and has lectured widely around the world. He has published numerous research journal papers and book chapters and is author or editor of eight books, most recently Management in Western Europe (1993, De Gruyter) and Management Worldwide: Distinctive Styles Amid Globalization ( enhanced ed, 2001, Penguin Books, with Derek S. Pugh). Prior to becoming an academic, David Hickson worked in financial administration and qualified profes­sionally as a chartered secretary and in personnel management.