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Reform as routine : organizational change and stability in the modern world
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ISBN: 9780198296706 0198296703 9786612336546 1282336541 0191570389 0191860190 9780191570384 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change. Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to implement new organizational forms, introduce new procedures or systems, or change the attitudes of employees. Such reforms often yield disappointing results, and so new reforms are deemed necessary.In this book, Nils Brunsson considers why reform takes place. He looks at why reforms occur when they do, why they propagate certain ideas to the exclusion of others, and what their consequences are. He emphasizes the role of social institutions, fas

Mechanisms of hope : maintaining the dream of the rational organization.
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ISBN: 8763001454 9788763001458 Year: 2006 Publisher: Copenhagen Copenhagen business school press


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The organization of hypocrisy: talk, decisions and actions in organizations
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ISBN: 0471920746 9780471920748 Year: 1989 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

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The consequences of decision-making
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ISBN: 0199206287 9786611148904 0191525642 1281148903 1429492759 0191860204 9780191525643 9781281148902 6611148906 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Decision-making is one of the defining characteristics of modern organizations. This book collects together the most important writing on decision-making by Brunsson, one of the leading European organizational theorists. The author provides an introduction to this work, brought together for the first time in this volume. - ;Nils Brunsson is one of the leading European organization theorists who has written and researched decision-making in organizations. He has often questioned the rationality of decision-making, and argued that it is as important to understand other consequences of decision-m

The irrational organization: irrationality as a basis for organizational action and change
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ISBN: 0471907952 9780471907954 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chichester

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The consequences of decision-making.
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ISBN: 9780199206285 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Propensity to change : [an empirical study of decisions on reorientations]
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ISBN: 9172460229 Year: 1976 Volume: 27. Publisher: Göteborg : [Företagsekonomiska institutionen vid Göteborgsuniversitet],

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The irrational organization : irrationality as a basis for organizational action and change
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ISBN: 8276745709 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bergen Fagbokforlaget

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A world of standards.
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ISBN: 0198296932 9780198296935 9780199256952 0199256950 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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