Organizational Environments

by Meyer, John W.; Scott, W. Richard

• ISBN13: 9780803944695
• ISBN10: 0803944691
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

The original edition of this important book has had a significant impact on organizational theorizing throughout the past decade. Meyer and Scott are both well known for their significant contributions to institutional theories of organizations and this Updated Edition blends original articles and compilations of other works to create the most complete explication of the authors' theoretical notions.

Table of Contents

Introduction

From Technology to Environment

The Institutional Origins Of Organizational Structure

Institutionalized Organizations

Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

Institutional and Technical Sources of Organizational Structure

Explaining the Structure of Educational Organizations

Varieties Of Institutional Environments

The Structure of Educational Organizations

Health Care Organizations in the 1980s

The Convergence of Public and Professional Control Systems

Reform Movements and Organizations

The Case of Aging

The Organization of Societal Sectors

The Organization of Environments

Network, Cultural, and Historical Elements

Fragmented Centralization And Its Organizational Consequences

Centralization of Funding and Control in Educational Governance

Centralization and the Legitimacy Problems of Local Government

Organizational Factors Affecting Legalization in Education

Innovation and Knowledge Use in American Public Education

Conclusion

Institutionalization and the Rationality of Formal Organizational Structure

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