Organizational Theory, Design, and Change: Text and Cases

by Gareth R. Jones

New edition of a text that addresses how organizations work and how the different contingency factors can affect the choices managers make. In the first four chapters, Jones (Tex A&M U.) lays out the central design challenges facing an organization if is to successfully create value for stakeholders

Genres: Textbooks

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gareth R. Jones is a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. He received his B.A. in Economics/Psychology and his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Lancaster, U.K. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a frequent visitor and speaker at universities in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

He specializes in strategic management and organizational theory and is well known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic and organizational behaviour. He is currently interested in strategy process, competitive advantage, and information technology issues. He is also investigating the relationships between ethics, trust, and organizational culture and studying the role of affect in the strategic decision-making process.

He has published many articles in leading journals of the field and his recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations. An article on the role of information technology on many aspects of organizational functioning was recently published in the Journal of Management. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. He is or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.

Gareth Jones has taken his academic knowledge and used it to craft leading textbooks in management, and three other major areas in the management discipline: organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and strategic management. His books are widely recognized for their innovative, contemporary content, and for the clarity with which they communicate complex, real-world issues to students. He comes from a long line of educators and is happy that his two children, Nicholas who is 10, and Julia who is 9, seem to show similar interests, as they are always trying to teach him new things.

Reviews

[Milos Mirosavljevic · Rating 4 out of 5]

While generally very dry and at moment hard and borring to read, overall this book provides great informtion and basically all there is to organizational theory.

[fc7reads · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was required reading for a course I took. The information is interesting but dry. The chapters are deceptively long because the book is oversized and the print is a bit on the small side.