Organizational Realities. Studies of Strategizing and Organizing.

STARBUCK, WILLIAM H. [ED. - ET AL.].

ISBN 10: 0199288518 / ISBN 13: 9780199288519

Published by Oxford-New York-Auckland, Oxford University Press 2006, 2006

About this Item

Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: xxiv, 620pp., 23 contributions with figs - tables - summaries - acknowledgements - references, general bibliography, index. - as new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Organizational Realities. Studies of Strategizing and Organizing.
• Publisher: Oxford-New York-Auckland, Oxford University Press 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199288518
• ISBN 13: 9780199288519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

William H. Starbuck, is one of the most creative, productive and wide-ranging writers in management and organization studies. His work spans three decades and encompasses a whole variety of issues, yet it has never been collected together in one place. This book does just that-bringing together his most seminal writing, prefaced by a personal reflection on some of the themes and conclusions of that emerge from this, and the context I which they were written.
What emerges from this is a picture of organizations and their strategies that emphasizes the characteristics of real-life human beings: their idiosyncratic preferences, their distrust for each other, their struggle for dominance, their personal interests which don't always coincide with the interests of the organization, and the internal politicking and contests between interests groups that take place in organizations. Some chapters review research literature, some report empirical findings, some propose conceptual reformulation, and some offer advice to managers.
This book will be a unique guide to the work of an influential thinker in management and organization studies, and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students of management, strategy and organization studies.

About the Author

William H. Starbuck is Professor in Residence, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. Author of numerous articles on a wide-ranging set of issues relating to organizational behavior and strategy, he is also a former editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and co-editor of The Handbook of Organizational Design (with Paul Nystrom, OUP, 1981).