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Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality
Organizational Environments Ritual and Rationality Author:Professor John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott Organizational Environments is one of the most important books in organization theory published in the past decade. The authors are both well known for their significant contributions to institutional theories of organizations and in this book they lay down the basic precepts of these theories and discuss some of their applications and im... more »plications. A blend of original articles and compilations of their other work Organizational Environments is the most complete explication of the authors' theoretical notions and has had a major impact on organization theorizing in the 1980s. Though the book has been out of print in recent years, popular demand has prompted its return in the form of this updated edition featuring full text of the original book as well as a new Preface describing some of the theoretical advances of the past decade.« less