Organizational Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Voice and Involvement at Work

   Experience with Non-Union Representation

   Edited by Paul Gollan, Bruce Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

   Nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the last decade in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. Two reasons account for this. The first is the long-term and cumulatively substantial decline in trade union...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Consumer Behavior Analysis

   (A) Rational Approach to Consumer Choice

   Edited by Donald A. Hantula, Victoria K. Wells

   Consumption is the primary economic activity in our post-industrial society. We are consumers, not producers. Consumer behavior analysis is leading heterodox marketing scholarship and innovative applied behavioral work, with much to offer both constituencies. This volume shows how consumer behavior...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

   A Study of Medicalizing Management

   By Mikael Holmqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Managing Sport Organizations

   Responsibility for performance

   By Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing Sports Organizations is still the most interesting, challenging, and student-focused introduction to sport management currently available. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book explores every key topic, issue and concept...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   Theory and Behaviour

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   Re-issuing volumes originally published between 1949 and 1995 this 31 volume set examines the theory and behaviour of organizations. Topics covered include: the sociology of work leadership and organizations politics at work theory and practice of company organization patterns of business...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

   Edited by James March

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   This book charts the state of organizational research and theory during the 1960s. A compendium of results, references, concepts ideas and theories, this Handbook will be of interest to both academics in organizational theory and managers facing operating problems of organizations....

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Sociology of the Workplace (RLE: Organizations)

   Edited by Malcolm Warner

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach. The study of the workplace is approached from the standpoint of industrial sociology, industrial relations, industrial anthropology and other related disciplines. It includes contributions from economists and psychologists as well as from...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
8. Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

   Edited by Alan Bryman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
9. Leadership and Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

   Edited by Alan Bryman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

   In this textbook Alan Bryman provides a detailed and critical examination of the literature on leadership in organizations, giving special recognition to the needs of students of organizational behaviour and the social psychology of organizations. After an examination of the complexity of the...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
10. Power, Rule and Domination (RLE: Organizations)

    A Critical and Empirical Understanding of Power in Sociological Theory and Organizational Life

    By Stewart Clegg

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By making use of the discussions he recorded at a construction site, the author brings the reader into contact with...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge