Stewart R Clegg & Cynthia Hardy 
Managing Organizations 
Current Issues

In
Managing Organizations Stewart Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord explore the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as diversity, globalization and ecology. Students and teachers of management will find this a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on the core issues for contemporary managers and organizations.

Spis treści

Introduction – Stewart R Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter R Nord

Creative Deconstruction – Richard Whipp

Strategy and Organizations

Leadership in Organizations – Alan Bryman

Decision-Making in Organizations – Susan J Miller, David J Hickson and David C Wilson

Cognitions in Organizations – Anne E Tenbrunsel et al

Diverse Identities in Organizations – Stella M Nkomo and Taylor Cox Jr

Putting Group Information Technology in Its Place – Arthur D Shulman

Communication and Good Work Group Performance

Metaphors of Communication and Organization – Linda L Putnam, Nelson Phillips and Pamela Chapman

Organizations, Technology and Structuring – Karlene H Roberts and Martha Grabowski

Organizing for Innovation – Deborah Dougherty

Organizational Learning – Karl E Weick and Frances Westley

Affirming an Oxymoron

Organizations and the Biosphere – Carolyn P Egri and Lawrence T Pinfield

Ecologies and Environments

Evolution and Revolution – Barbara Parker

From International Business to Globalization

O autorze

Management professor Walt Nord studies organization theory and behavior and is currently researching the topic in a political/economic context. The author of numerous books, textbooks, and scholarly articles, his newest book will offer a new philosophical framework for organization studies, seeking to overcome current polarizing debates by developing an improved philosophical perspective for organization studies.

As an author, Nord received the George Terry Award in 1997 for co-editing the Handbook of Organization Studies, an annual award from the Academy of Management that is bestowed to a book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the field. The same academy named Nord a Distinguished University Professor in 2002 (USF named him Distinguished University Professor in 2003); these honors recognize significant contributions to the science and practice of management.

Nord earned a BA in economics from Williams College, an MS in organizational behavior from Cornell University, and a Ph D in social psychology from Washington University. Before joining USF in 1989, he taught at Tulane University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of British Columbia, and Washington University. He is an editor or reviewer for numerous academic journals.