SOCI 586 - Organizations I:Theory

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University of Pennsylvania

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Staff. Theoretical and empirical issues in studies of formal organizations. Among the issues joined: (1) the pros and cons of rational-legal ('bureaucratic') structures deducible from empirical studies; (2) the private and social costs and benefits of large scale industrial "for profit" organizations; (3) the attacks on corporate structures by reformers in the social sciences, 1930-1980s, and by "corporate raiders" (1980s and 1990s); (4) organizations' members' "informal" mechanisms for contending with their circumstances; (5) organizations as labor markets; (6) organizations as commodities; and (7) 'post modern' organizations' "stakeholders". In a final section we will read and discuss a timely recent volume on theory about and research on organizations with the author. Among "organizational" types" we will consider are those found in education, industry, government, unions and social movements.

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3.00

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www.upenn.edu

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(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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