2nd Edition

Handbook of Organization Theory and Management The Philosophical Approach, Second Edition

Edited By Thomas D. Lynch, Peter L. Cruise Copyright 2006

    Few subjects are more influenced by philosophy than the form of governance that guides and administers public affairs, yet much of the literature about public administration remains silent about this connection. Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach, Second Edition identifies and discusses many of the most important philosophies and movements that have influenced contemporary public administration. This resource begins with the classics, explores the postmoderns, and ends with 21st Century views. The text details many of greatest and a few of the lesser-known thinkers that have crafted the philosophical lens that we use to define and understand public administration.

    The second edition is made up of contributed chapters from renowned scholars. Many of the authors have revised and expanded their original contributions, and the book also contains ten new chapters covering schools of thought or movements that were not included in the first edition. The editors added extensive material that examines 21st Century alternatives to organization theory and management, including multicratic and virtual organizational structures and management approaches.

    Addressing thinkers and movements in the chronological order of their appearance, this text provides students of public administration and policy a unique picture of how we continually view, understand, and debate the proper application of public management and policy.

    PREMODERN
    Plato and the Invention of Political Science
    Ralph Clark Chandler
    Aristotle, MacIntyre, and Virtue Ethics
    Thomas Dexter Lynch and Cynthia E. Lynch
    What Jesus Says to Public Administration
    Lance deHaven-Smith
    The Hebrew Bible and Public Administration
    Ira Sharkansky
    MODERNIST DEFINED
    The English Legacy of Public Administration
    Pamela Tarquinio Brannon
    Niccolò Machiavelli: Moving through the Future as
    We Learn from the Past
    Christopher Anne Easley and John W. Swain
    Mercantilism and the Future: The Future Lives of an
    Old Philosophy
    Paul Rich
    Jeremy Bentham: On Organizational Theory and
    Decision Making, Public Policy Analysis, and
    Administrative Management
    Lawrence L. Martin
    John Locke’s Continuing Influence on Organization
    Theory and Behavior Entering the 21st Century
    Mark F. Griffith
    Invisible Hand and Visible Management
    David John Farmer
    EARLY LOYAL OPPOSITION TO
    THE MODERNIST
    The Legacy of David Hume for American Public
    Administration: Empiricism, Skepticism, and
    Constitutionalism
    Michael W. Spicer
    Moral Conscience in Burkean Thought: Implication of
    Diversity and Tolerance in Public Administration
    Akhlaque Haque
    AMERICAN MODERNIST INFLUENCE
    Classical Pragmatism, the American Experiment, and
    Public Administration
    Robert Brom and Patricia M. Shields
    Making Democracy Safe for the World: Public
    Administration in the Political Thought of
    Woodrow Wilson
    Brian J. Cook
    Enduring Narratives from Progressivism
    Larkin Sims Dudley
    The Bureau Movement: Seedbed of Modern Public
    Administration
    Camilla Stivers
    Positively No Proverbs Need Apply: Revisiting the
    Legacy of Herbert A. Simon
    Peter L. Cruise
    Mary Parker Follett: Lost and Found — Again, and
    Again, and Again
    Mary Ann Feldheim
    Administrative Statesman, Philosopher, Explorer: The
    Life, Landscape, and Legacy of Dwight Waldo
    Charles Garofalo
    LATER MODERNIST OPPOSITION
    Modernity, Administrative Evil, and the Contribution
    of Eric Voegelin
    Gerson Moreno-Riaño
    Marshall Dimock’s Deflective Organizational Theory
    James A. Stever
    Phenomenology and Public Administration
    William L. Waugh, Jr., and Wesley W. Waugh
    The Existentialist Public Administrator
    William L. Waugh, Jr.
    John Rawls and Public Administration
    Stephen L. Esquith
    RISE OF POSTMODERNISM
    From Positivism to Postpositivism: An
    Unfinished Journey
    Laurent Dobuzinskis
    On the Language of Bureaucracy: Postmodernism,
    Plain English, and Wittgenstein
    Robert P. Watson
    Postmodern Philosophy, Postmodernity, and Public
    Organization Theory
    Charles J. Fox and Hugh T. Miller
    TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY ALTERNATIVES
    Neoliberal Economics, Public Domains, and
    Organizations: Is There Any Organizational Design
    after Privatization?
    Alexander Kouzmin and John Dixon
    Public Entrepreneurism: A New Paradigm for Public
    Administration?
    Alan C. Melchior
    The Multicratic Organization: A Model for Management
    of Functional Interdependence
    Richard A. Narad
    Virtual Program Evaluation: A Twenty-First Century
    Approach
    Peter L. Cruise and Thomas D. Lynch
    Twenty-First-Century Philosophy and Public
    Administration: Refocusing the Lens
    Thomas D. Lynch and Cynthia E. Lynch

    Biography

    Thomas D. Lynch, Peter L. Cruise, Forrest Clark, A.B. Lorenzoni