TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson, James D.
TI  - Organizations in action: social science bases of administrative theory
SN  - 9780765809919
U1  - 302.35THO 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - Industrial organization
N1  - Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1967. With new introd
N2  - Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult. Modern-day organizations?manufacturing firms, hospitals, schools, armies, community agencies?are extremely complex in nature, and several strategies, employing a variety of disciplines, are needed to gain a proper understanding of them
ER  -