Organizational Analysis

by Daniel A. McFarland, Charles J. Gomez

The material presented in this textbook consists of lecture notes that agglomerated into their present form after nearly a decade of teaching organizational analysis at Stanford University.
If there are positive features of the text and the course, then we think it fair to attribute such accolades to the scholars we heavily draw upon. In particular, the theoretical work of Dick Scott, Graham Allison, Herbert Simon, James G. March, John Kingdon, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid, Joanne Martin, Deborah Meyerson, Gideon Kunda, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerry Salancik, John Padgett, Mark Granovetter, Paul Dimaggio, Woody Powell, Arthur Stinchcombe, Michael Hannan, John Freeman and Glenn Carroll (and many more!) have all been an inspiration to us and we have relied heavily on their work and its insights. We encourage all the readers of this text to go out and study these authors’ primary works and to take their classes wherever and whenever possible.

187 pages, ebook

First published September 1, 2013

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Text book for Coursera Course out of Stanford University. Most is too academic for my needs, but his chapter on Organizational Learning and Culture helped me build on work I've been doing at work.

[Hossain M]

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