The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective / Edition 1

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Overview

“Two of the best minds in the business, Pfeffer and Salancik crafted this powerful argument that remains timely and timeless. That’s the true test of a classic. The External Control of Organizations is a trusted, durable, evocative work.” —Karl E. Weick,Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Business School
“Launching the resource dependence theory of organizations, this influential work was the first to recognize the power of the wider social-political environment as a force shaping organizational structure and behavior. Recognizing that all organizations must acquire resources from the environment as a condition of their survival, Pfeffer and Salancik demonstrate how resource dependence gives rise to power problems and, potentially, to political solutions.” —W. Richard Scott,Stanford University

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804747899
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication date: 3/26/2003
  • Series: Stanford Business Classics Series
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 380,200
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.13 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His recent publications include The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People. Gerald R. Salancik was the D. B. Kirr Professor of Organization at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Dedication of the Classic Edition
Introduction to the Classic Edition
Preface
1 An External Perspective on Organizations 1
2 Organization and Social Context Defined 23
3 Social Control of Organizations 39
4 The Organizational Environment and How It Is Known 62
5 Managing Organizational Demands: Adaptation and Avoidance 92
6 Altering Organization Interdependence: Controlling the Context of Control 113
7 The Negotiated Environment: Establishing Collective Structures of Interorganizational Action 143
8 The Created Environment: Controlling Interdependence Through Law and Social Sanction 188
9 Executive Succession: A Mechanism for Environmental Effects 225
10 The Design and Management of Externally Controlled Organizations 257
Index 289
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