Classics of organization theory / Jay M. Shafritz, J. Steven Ott, Yong Suk Jang.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to organization theory. A chronology of organization theory -- Chapter 1. Classical organization theory -- Socrates discovers generic management / xenophon (1869) -- Of the division of labour / Adam Smith (1776) -- Superintendent's report / Daniel C. McCallum (1856) -- The engineer as economist / Henry R. Towne (1886) -- General principles of management / Henri Fayol (1916) -- The principles of scientific management / Frederick Winslow Taylor (1916) -- Bureaucracy / Max Weber (1922) -- Notes on the theory of organization / Luther Gulick (1937) -- Chapter 2. Neoclassical organization theory -- Chester I. Barnard and the guardians of the managerial state: the moral obligations of the elite / William G. Scott (1992) -- The proverbs of administration / Herbert A. Simon (1946) -- Foundations of the theory of organization / Philip Selznick (1948) -- Chapter 3. Human resource theory, or the organizational behavior perspective -- The Hawthorne experiment. Western Electric Company / Elton Mayo (1933) -- A theory of human motivation / Abraham H. Maslow (1943) -- The human side of enterprise / Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) -- Groupthink: the desperate drive for consensus at any cost / Irving L. Janis (1971).

Chapter 4. "Modern" structural organization theory -- The concept of formal organization / Peter M. Blau & W. Richard Scott (1962) -- Organizational choice: product versus function / Arthur H. Walker & Jay W. Lorsch (1968) -- Structure in 5's: a synthesis of the research on organization design / Henry Mintzberg (1980) -- Chapter 5. Organizational economics theory -- The economics of organization: the transaction cost approach / Oliver E. Williamson (1981) -- Learning from organizational economics / Jay B. Barney & William G. Ouchi (1986) -- An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance / Elinor Ostrom (1990) -- Chapter 6. Power and politics organization theory -- The bases of social power / John R.P. French Jr. & Bertram Raven (1959) -- The power of power / James G. March (1966) -- Power failure in management circuits / Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979) -- The power game and the players / Henry Mintzberg (1983).

Chapter 7. Theories of organizational culture and change -- The concept of organizational culture: why bother? / Edgar H. Schein (2004) -- Cultures and organizations: pyramids, machines, and families: organizing across nations / Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, & Michael Minkov (2010) -- Appreciative inquiry / David L. Cooperrider & Diana Whitney (2005) -- Chapter 8. Theories of organizations and environments -- Organizations and the system concept / Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn (1966) -- Organizations in action / James D. Thompson (1967) -- Institutionalized organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony / John W. Meyer & Brian Rowan (1977) -- External control of organizations: a resource dependence perspective / Jeffrey Pfeffer & Gerald R. Salancik (1978) -- The network organization in theory and practice / Wayne E. Baker (1992) -- Chapter 9. Theories of organizations and society -- Gendering organizational theory / Joan Acker (1992) -- A new kind of public service professional possessing cultural competency awareness, knowledge, and skills / Mitchell F. Rice & Audrey L. Mathews (2012) -- Corporate citizenship: social responsibility, responsiveness, and performance / Archie B. Carroll & Ann K. Buchholtz (1989) -- The search for social entrepreneurship / Paul C. Light (2008) -- Towards a theory of hybrid organizations / David Billis (2010).