0198288786 9780198288787 paperback 0198288778 hard 9780198288770 hard 9780191684630 ebook 0191684635 ebook
Alternate Call Number
F 191 BUR.M
Summary
"The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books on organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The main question it addresses - the relationship between an organization and its market and the technological environment - continues to preoccupy researchers and managers as innovation has even greater impact on organizational structures and competitiveness." "Engagingly written and wearing its scholarship lightly, the book presents the authors' now famous binary classification of 'mechanistic' or 'organic' systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and of organizational dynamics, covering such issues as organizational politics, the role of the chief executive and the relationship between technical staff and general managers." "For this new edition, Tom Burns has written an overview of developments in organization theory and situated the book in that context."--Jacket.
Note
Reprinted 2013. Cop. 1961, Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker. Repr. of original Tavistock, 1961, ed. with new preface. Andere Ausgabe: <<the>> Management of innovation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The organization of innovation The development of the electronics industry, and the Scottish Council's scheme The market context Management structures and systems Mechanistic and organic systems of management Working organization, political system, and status structure within the concern The laboratory and the workshop Industrial scientists and managers: problems of power and of status The men at the top The shaping of work relationships Codes of practice in management conduct.
"The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books on organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The main question it addresses - the relationship between an organization and its market and the technological environment - continues to preoccupy researchers and managers as innovation has even greater impact on organizational structures and competitiveness." "Engagingly written and wearing its scholarship lightly, the book presents the authors' now famous binary classification of 'mechanistic' or 'organic' systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and of organizational dynamics, covering such issues as organizational politics, the role of the chief executive and the relationship between technical staff and general managers." "For this new edition, Tom Burns has written an overview of developments in organization theory and situated the book in that context."--Jacket.