Includes index.

Content: Introduction to organizations: Organizations and organization theory -- Organizational purpose and structural design: Strategy, organization design, and effectiveness -- Fundamentals of organization structure -- Open system design elements: The External environment -- Inter-organizational relationships -- Designing organizations for the international environment -- Internal design elements: Manufacturing and service technologies -- Information technology and control -- Organization size, life cycle, and decline -- Managing dynamic processes: Organizational culture and ethical values -- Innovation and change -- Decision-making processes -- Conflict, power and politics.