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  title info:
    title: Formal organizations
    sub title: a comparative approach
  name:
    name part: Blau, Peter Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Scott, W. Richard.
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: Stanford, Calif
    publisher: Stanford Business Books
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 312 pages)
  abstract: Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors. In the book, the authors reviewed multiple types of studies--including case studies, experimental research, and surveys--and integrated them to define new central themes. They used their own empirical studies of two social welfare agencies to illustrate the ways in which varying organizational contexts shape work group and participant attitudes and activities. The book served to integrate research on both formal and informal systems, authority and leadership, and stressed the importance of links to the wider environment. This reissue, which includes a new introduction by Scott, makes this seminal work accessible to a new generation of scholars and practitioners.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: The nature and types of formal organizations -- The organization and its publics -- The social structure of work groups -- Processes of communication -- The role of the supervisor -- Managerial control -- The social context of organizational life -- Organizational dynamics.
  note: Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott.
  note: Originally published: San Francisco : Chandler Publishing Company, 1962. Chandler publications in anthropology. With new introduction
  note: New introduction includes biographical and professional data for both authors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-301) and indexes.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Comparative organization
  subject:
    topic: Associations, institutions, etc
  subject:
    topic: Societies
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Management Styles & Communication
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
  subject:
    topic: Organisation comparée
  subject:
    topic: Associations
  subject:
    topic: Associations, institutions, etc
  subject:
    topic: Comparative organization
  classification: HD31 .B53 2003
  classification: 302.3/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Formal organizations : a comparative approach
    name:
      name part: Blau, Peter Michael.
    origin info:
      publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, 2003
    identifier: (OCoLC)52750082
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Stanford business classics
  identifier: 080474890X
  identifier: 9780804748902
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 030710
    record change date: 20250331201116.4
    record identifier: in00005635161
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng