Organisations and the Environment

Paul Thompson and David McHugh

Chapter 3 in Work Organisations, 1990, pp 86-128 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The previous chapter provides plenty of evidence that the contexts in which organisations operate, whether they be the rise of monopoly capitalism, the ups and downs of the trade cycle, or political circumstances such as the New Deal, profoundly shape their nature and development. But does this figure prominently in conventional organisational theory? Salaman argues that it does not: The society in which these organisations occur, and its relation with these organisations, has been very little studied. To the extent that the outside world does impinge on the structure and functioning of organisations, it is conceptualised not in terms of interests, values, class loyalties, ideologies, market developments etc., but as the organisation’s ‘environment’. (1979: 32)

Keywords: National Health Service; Industrial Relation; Work Organisation; Strategic Choice; Contingency Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20741-1_4

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