Part I - OvertureChapter 1 -About Theories of OrganizationChapter 2 - Assumptions About the Nature of Social Science and Society - Gibson Burrell and Gareth MorganPart II - Closed System Rational ModelsChapter 3 - The Classical Approach: The Fundamentals of Top Management - Ralph C. DavisPart III - Closed System Natural ModelsChapter 4 - The Functions of the Executive - Chester BarnardPart IV - Integrative Approaches to OrganizationChapter 5 - Organizations Power and Compliance: Amatai Etzioni's A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations - Robert J. HouseChapter 6 - James D. Thompson's Organizations in Action - Donna GoehlePart V - Open System Rational Models Bounded RationalityChapter 7 - James March and Herbert Simon, Organizations - Henry Tosi Contingency TheoriesChapter 8 -Burns and Stalker, The Management of InnovationChapter 9 - Woodward's Industrial Organization - Donna GoehleChapter 10 - Organization Analysis: A Sociological Point of View - Charles PerrowChapter 11. Henry Mintzberg, The Structuring of Organizations - Janice H. Zahrly Economic ApproachesChapter 12-Agency Theory: an Assessment and Overview - Kathleen EisenhardtChapter 13 - Theory of Managerial Capitalism - Henry TosiChapter 14 The Markets and Hierarchies Program of Research: Origins, Implications, Prospects - Oliver Williamson and William OuchiPart VI - Open System Natural ModelsChapter 15 - Selznick's TVA and the Grass Roots - Henry TosiChapter 16 The Population Ecology of Organizations by - Michael Hannan and John FreemanChapter 17 - The Adolescence of Institutional Theory - W. Richard ScottPart VII - Critical Theory and Post ModernismChapter 18 Critical Organizational Theory - John M. JermierChapter 19 -Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions - Marta Calas and Linda Smircich

Includes excerpts from seminal works and summaries of key theoretical models that form the basis of the field of organization theory.