When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns /: organizational failures and breakdowns. (©1999)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns /: organizational failures and breakdowns. (©1999)
- Main Title:
- When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns
- Further Information:
- Note: Helmut K. Anheier, editor.
- Other Names:
- Anheier, Helmut K, 1954-
- Contents:
- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; Organizational Failures, Breakdowns and Bankruptcies - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton; An Introduction; PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS AND FAILURE; Costly Information - Lynne G Zucker and Michael R Darby; Firm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent Failure; Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure - David Wilson, David J Hickson and Susan J Miller; How Organisations Can Overbalance; "Tales from the Grave" - Mark Hager et al; Organizations' Accounts of Their Own Demise; Organizational Coping, Failure, and Success - Renate Mayntz; Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe; PART THREE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCY; Successful Failure - Wolfgang Seibel; An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Veiled Politics - Kevin J Delaney; Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; The Politics of Blame Avoidance - Mark Bovens et al; Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime-Fighting Fiasco; Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue - Terence C Halliday and Bruce G Carruthers; Professionalization of Insolvency; PART FOUR: THE COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF FAILURE; Prosaic Organizational Failure - Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow; Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance - Marshall W Meyer; PART FIVE: STRUCTURAL FAILURES; Success and Failure in Institutional Development - Frank P Romo and Helmut K Anheier; A Network Approach; Stalemate - Helmut K Anheier and Frank P Romo; A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; PARTPART ONE: INTRODUCTION; Organizational Failures, Breakdowns and Bankruptcies - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton; An Introduction; PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS AND FAILURE; Costly Information - Lynne G Zucker and Michael R Darby; Firm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent Failure; Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure - David Wilson, David J Hickson and Susan J Miller; How Organisations Can Overbalance; "Tales from the Grave" - Mark Hager et al; Organizations' Accounts of Their Own Demise; Organizational Coping, Failure, and Success - Renate Mayntz; Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe; PART THREE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCY; Successful Failure - Wolfgang Seibel; An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Veiled Politics - Kevin J Delaney; Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; The Politics of Blame Avoidance - Mark Bovens et al; Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime-Fighting Fiasco; Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue - Terence C Halliday and Bruce G Carruthers; Professionalization of Insolvency; PART FOUR: THE COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF FAILURE; Prosaic Organizational Failure - Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow; Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance - Marshall W Meyer; PART FIVE: STRUCTURAL FAILURES; Success and Failure in Institutional Development - Frank P Romo and Helmut K Anheier; A Network Approach; Stalemate - Helmut K Anheier and Frank P Romo; A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; PART SIX: CONCLUSION; Studying Organizational Failures - Helmut K Anheier and Lynne Moulton; … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Copyright Date:
- 1999
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages :), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 658.4
Business failures
Bankruptcy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Governance
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Development
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture
Bankruptcy
Business failures
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781452264653
1452264651
9780761910480
0761910484
9781452231457
1452231451 - Related ISBNs:
- 0761910476
0761910484
9780761910473 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.15474
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