WHEN THINGS GO WRONG by Helmut K. Anheier (Editor) ( 9780761910480 )

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Title:

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURES AND BREAKDOWNS

By:

Helmut K. Anheier (Editor)

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0761910484

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9780761910480

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

Pub. date:

1 January, 1999

Pages:

328

Description:

The essays in this book are examples of current scholarship on for aspects of organizational failure: Organizational, Political, Cognitive , and Structural, written by twenty-four diverse academic authors. The phenomenon of failure is organizations is too multi-faceted to make a `grand theory of organizational failure' but best when highlighted by one or more of these four aspects. This book presents failure' as a relative concept as t the expectations and strategies of stakeholders putting a claim in the performance of the organization and the notion of success. It challenges future research in this field to combine economic and non-economic performance measures to asses organizational tendencies toward success and failure and to differentiate failure as process and failure as an outcome.

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'The editor has worked well to achieve a coherent product which will serve as the authoritative and leading text in its area. The future research agenda is to combine economic and non-economic performance measures, as well a to differentiate failure as process and failure as an outcome.' - Gerald Vinten, Southampton Business Institute, British Academy of Management NewsThis book deals with the the multi-faceted nature of organizational failure through examination of the organizational, political, cognitive and structural aspects of the phenomenon. `Failure' is presented as a relative concept where the expectations and strategies of stakeholders make claims on the performance of the organization and the notion of success. The book also issues a challenges to future research in this field: It advocates using a combination of economic and non-economic performance measures in the assessment of organizational tendencies toward success and failure, and stresses the need for differentiation between failure as a process and failure as an outcome.

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