Different ways of understanding an organization

Pablo Cardona and Carlos Rey

Chapter 2 in Management by Missions, 2008, pp 22-36 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the industrial revolution, a variety of management theories and systems have emerged. For decades, academics, consultants, practicing managers, and experts in disciplines such as psychology or engineering have tried to answer the basic question: what is a company?

Keywords: Business Enterprise; Cultural Perspective; Organic Perspective; Mechanical Perspective; Successful Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59894-2_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230598942

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598942_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().