Concept information
Preferred term
organization theory
Definition
- Organization theory refers to a large and multidisciplinary body of scholarly work that focuses on understanding organizations. Most of this work has been written by scholars in the disciplines of sociology, business management, and economics. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Organization Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adhocracy
- bureaucracy
- complexity
- coordination
- effectiveness
- efficiency
- formal organizations
- garbage can theory
- heterarchy
- hierarchy
- high-reliability organizations
- hybrid organization
- impossible job
- informal organization
- interdependence
- interorganizational coordination
- knowledge management
- line-staff organization
- matrix organization
- normal accident theory
- organizational discourse
- organizational field
- organizational learning
- organizational misbehavior
- organizational mortality
- organizational paradox
- organizational paranoia
- organizational structure
- quasi-market
- resource dependency theory
- self-organizing system
- structural contingency theory
- systems theory
- The Organization Man (book)
Belongs to group
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SPM56M93-G
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