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business and organizational studies
reading list
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Required Reading
| Mary Jo Hatch, Organization Theory (OUP) |
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| Charles Handy, Understanding Organizations (Penguin) |
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| Nano McCaughan & Barry Palmer, Systems Thinking for
Harrassed Managers (Karnac) |
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Recommended Reading
| Kenneth Arrow, Individual Choice and Social Values |
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| E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. A study of economics
as if people mattered. |
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| Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT) |
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| Richard Veryard, Component-Based Business. |
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| Aidan Ward & John Smith, Trust & Mistrust |
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During your placement year, you should read more deeply into the business
literature, and try to make connections with what you have learned and
what you're now experiencing yourself. Here are some outstanding, thought-provoking
and highly readable books.
Books
| Charles Handy, Understanding Organizations (Penguin) |
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| Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization (Sage) |
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| Richard Normann, Reframing Business (Wiley) |
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| Karl Weick, Making Sense of the Organization (Blackwell Business) |
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To be developed.
Books
M. Blackstaff, Finance for IT Decision-Makers (Springer)
H.T. Johnson & R.S. Kaplan, Relevance Lost: The Rise and
Fall of Management Accounting (Harvard Business School Press)
M. Power, The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (OUP)
A. Rappaport, Creating Shareholder Value: The New Standard for
Business (Free Press)
Journals
Management Accounting Quarterly
Books
Russell L. Ackoff, A Concept of Corporate Planning (Wiley)
H.I. Ansoff, R.P. Declerck & R.L. Hayes (eds), From Strategic
Planning to Strategic Management (Wiley)
Charles Hamden-Turner, Charting the Corporate Mind: From Dilemma
to Strategy (Blackwell)
Richard Normann, Management for Growth (Wiley)
Henry Mintzberg & James B. Quinn, The Strategy Process:
Concepts, Contexts, Cases (Prentice-Hall)
R.D. Stacey, Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics
(Pitman)
Eric Rhenman, Organization Theory for Long-Range Planning (Wiley)
Books
Richard Beckhard & Reuben Harris, Organizational Transitions:
Managing Complex Change (Addison-Wesley)
Bill Mayon-White (ed), Planning and Managing Change (Harper
& Row)
Will McWhinney & Eric Trist, Paths of Change (Sage)
Philip Sadler, Managing Change (Kogan Page)
Paul Watzlawick et al, Change: Principles of Problem Formation
and Problem Resolution (Norton)
The Beckhard and Harris book belongs to the Addison-Wesley Series
on Organizational Development, an excellent series of thin volumes about
change and intervention.
Books
Max Boisot, Information and Organizations (Fontana) - out of print
Charles Hampden-Turner, Corporate Culture: From Vicious to Virtuous
Circles
Majken Schultz, Mary Jo Hatch & Mogens Holten Larsen, The
Expressive Organization: Linking Identity, Reputation and the Corporate
Brand (Oxford). http://www.expressiveorganization.com
Lionel Stapley, The Personality of the Organization (Free Association)
Course Reading
Derek Pugh (ed), Organization Theory (Penguin) -- Part III: Management
and Decision-Making
Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization (Sage) -- Chapter 4: Organizations
as Brains
Books
C West Churchman, Prediction and Optimal Decision (Prentice Hall)
Jon Elster, Solomonic Judgements (Cambridge)
James March & J.P. Olsen, Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations
(Universitetsforlaget)
Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT)
Geoffrey Vickers, The Art of Judgment (Harper & Row)
Game Theory
Morton Davis, Game Theory: A Non-Technical Introduction
Henry Hamburger, Games as Models of Social Phenomena
R. Duncan Luce & Howard Raiffa, Games and Decisions
Anatol Rapoport, (various titles)
Web links
Game Theory Society
Game Theory .net - For educators
and students (lectures, games, books, quizzes)
David Levine's Economic and
Game Theory Page
Roger
A. McCain's Game Theory Page
Center for
Computational Game Theory
Considerable work has been done by economists and mathematicians in
Decision-Making
and Game Theory.
Books
| Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values |
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| E.J. Mishan, 21 Popular Economic Fallacies (Penguin).
See especially Part 2: Business Fallacies. |
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| E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. A study of economics
as if people mattered. |
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Website
History of Economic Thought
Books
Kenneth Arrow, Limits of Organization (Norton, 1974), Social Choice
and Individual Values (Yale, 1977)
Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard,
1993)
Will McWhinney, Creating Paths of Change: Managing issues and
resolving problems in organizations (Sage, 1997)
Thomas Frank, One Market under God (Secker and Warburg, 2001)
Useful case studies
Roger Lewin and Birute Regine The Soul at Work (Orion Business Books
1999)
Books
Janet Fulk & Charles Steinfield (eds), Organization and Communications
Technology (Sage)
M. Lynne Markus, Systems in Organizations: Bugs & Features
(Pitman)
Mark Poster, The Mode of Information (Polity Press)
Richard Veryard, Component-Based Business
(Springer)
Books
Robert de Board, The Psychoanalytic Approach to Behaviour in Groups
and Organizations (Tavistock)
Manfred Kets de Vries, Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches
to Management (Routledge)
Larry Hirschheim, The Workplace Within (MIT), Managing in the
New Team Environment (Addison Wesley), Reworking Authority (MIT)
Isabel Menzies Lyth, Containing Anxiety in Institutions
(Free Association), The Dynamics of the Social: Selected Essays (Free Association)
Mara Selvini Palazzoli et al, The Hidden Games of Organizations
(Random House)
K.K. Smith & D. Berg, Paradoxes of Group Life (Jossey Bass)
Journals
Human Relations
Organisational and Social Dynamics
Websites
About Psychology: Industrial/Organizational
Psychology
International Society for
the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
OPUS
Books
Mary Jo Hatch, Organization Theory (OUP)
Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization (Sage)
David Silverman, The Theory of Organizations (Heinemann Education)
Grahame Thompson et al (eds), Markets, Hierarchies and Networks:
The Coordination of Social Life (Sage)
Robert Westwood & Stephen Linstead (eds), The Language of
Organization (Sage)
Dictionaries
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology contains some useful definitions
and summaries. Such books may provide a starting point for further reading.
Bureaucracy
For your essay on bureaucracy, you will find useful material in Morgan,
Pugh and Thompson et al. You may also find material in many other textbooks
on management studies and organization theory.
Websites
About Psychology:
Theoretical Perspectives on Sociology
SocioSite:
SOCIOLOGISTS
Introductions
John Gall, Systemantics: The Underground Text of Systems Lore -
How Systems Really Work and How They Fail (Second Edition, General Systemantics
Press, Ann Arbor, 1986) ISBN 9780961825102
Nano McCaughan & Barry Palmer, Systems Thinking for Harrassed
Managers (Karnac)
Barry Oshry, Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational
Life (Berrett Koehler)
Three easy introductions -- each packed with insight, but very different
in style. McCaughan and Palmer present things clearly and simply; Oshry
is flamboyant and American; and Gall makes it humorous.
General Systems Theory
Books
Russell L. Ackoff & Fred E. Emery, On Purposeful Systems (Tavistock)
C West Churchman, The Systems Approach and its Enemies
Elliot Jaques: Requisite Organization: The CEO’s Guide to Creative
Structure and Leadership (Cason Hall & Co)
Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of
the Learning Organization (Century Business)
Geoffrey Vickers, Human Systems are Different (Harper &
Row)
Gerald Weinberg, Quality Software Management Vol 1: Systems
Thinking (Dorset House)
Web
Information on Complexity
theme
Principia Cybernetica
Self-Organizing Systems
FAQ for Usenet group comp.theory.self-org-sys compiled by Chris Lucas
American
Society for Cybernetics - Concepts
Complexity, Chaos and Catastrophe
Arthur Battram, Navigating Complexity: The Essential Guide to Complexity
Theory in Business and Management (Industrial Society)
Stephen Guasatello, Managing Emergent Phenomena: Nonlinear Dynamics
in Work Organizations (Lawrence Erlbaum)
Roger Lewin, Complexity: Life at the edge of chaos (Dent)
Viable Systems Model
Stafford Beer, Platform for Change (Wiley), Brain of the Firm (Wiley)
Raul Espejo & Roger Harriden (eds), The Viable Systems Model
(Wiley)
Cavendish Software paper on Viable
Systems Model (pdf)
Jon Walker guide to Viable
Systems Model (html)
Books
E. Coakes, R. Lloyd-Jones & D. Willis, The New Sociotech: Graffiti
on the Longwall (Springer, 2000)
Mike Cooley, Architect or Bee: The Human Price of Technology
(Hogarth Press)
Larry Hirschheim, Beyond Mechanization (MIT)
Harry Scarbrough & J. Martin Corbett, Technology and Organization:
Power, Meaning and Design (Routledge)
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and
Society (various editions)
Web
NetFuture:
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