The Politics of Organizational Decision-Making

by Andrew M. Pettigrew

Overview

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1973 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415488358
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/2009
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables, Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Conceptual Orientations, 2 Decision-making as a Political Process, 3 The Setting: Overview of Events 1955-68, 4 The Research Process, 5 Specialization as an Emergent Process: Phase One, 6 Specialization as an Emergent Process: Phase Two, 7 Strategies of Power Acquisition and Maintenance 1957-66, 8 The Disparity of Demands in an Innovative Decision Process, 9 The Sources and Use of Power in an Innovative Decision Process, 10 Conclusion, References, Author Index, Subject Index