01138nam a22001817a 4500 140325b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 013016559 HM786.S3846 Scott, Richard W. Organization: rational, natural, and open systems. / Richard Scott W. 5th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Halll, 2003. xv, 430 p.: ill.; 23cm. Includes index and references. Contents: An Introduction to organizations: The subject is organization -- Three perspectives on organizations: Organizations as rational systems -- Organizations as natural systems -- Organizations as open systems -- Combining the perspectives -- Environments, strategies,and structures: Conceptions of environments -- Creating organizations -- Boundary setting and boundary spanning -- Sources of structural complexity: the technical core -- Sources of structural complexity: The peripheral components -- Goals, power, and control -- Organizations and society: Organizational pathologies -- Organizational effectiveness. Sociology lcc BK 2766 10266 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2014-03-25 0 HM786.S3846 7819/246/14 2014-03-25 00:00:00 1 2014-03-25 REF