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    Review Session: Daniel Beunza MG475 Organisation Theory

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    The document outlines an agenda for a review session on organization theory, summarizing key concepts from various thinkers on topics such as the division of labor, bureaucracy, contingency theory, institutional theory, social movements, population ecology, sensemaking, social networks, organizational culture, and more. Major theorists discussed include Smith, Marx, Taylor, Weber, the Human Relations School, Burns and Stalker, DiMaggio and Powell, Donaldson and Preston, Weick, Granovetter, Burt, Kotter, and Kunda.

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    The document outlines an agenda for a review session on organization theory, summarizing key concepts from various thinkers on topics such as the division of labor, bureaucracy, contingency theory, institutional theory, social movements, population ecology, sensemaking, social networks, organizational culture, and more. Major theorists discussed include Smith, Marx, Taylor, Weber, the Human Relations School, Burns and Stalker, DiMaggio and Powell, Donaldson and Preston, Weick, Granovetter, Burt, Kotter, and Kunda.

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    Review session

    Daniel Beunza
    MG475 Organisation Theory
    Agenda for today
    Good to see you again!
    About the exam questions?
    Review
    Division of Labour
    Smith: Organizations (division
    of labour) are a more effective
    way to do work and lead to the
    progress of countries

    Marx: Quite the opposite.


    Division of labour is just a
    way to preserve control of
    the ruling classes
    Rob
    Parson
    Bureaucracy and Taylorism
    Taylor: What hinders progress is
    tradition. Need a scientific Erik
    organization of the tasks, so Peters
    that employees can learn how on
    to do a good job

    Weber: The new form of


    organizing work,
    bureaucracies, are an
    improvement as they
    avoid particularism and
    are fair
    The Human Relations School
    As explained by Perrow,
    Taylorism and efficiency
    improvement led to inequality
    and prompted unionization.
    Managers and corporate
    leaders legitimized the system Human Relations School:
    with Social Darwinism and the Attitudes and informal
    Moral Organization structures have as much
    effect on productivity as
    having the optimal
    Donna lighting.
    Dubins
    ki
    Contingency Theory
    El Bulli

    Burns and Stalker: Innovation


    requires a special type of
    organizations organic Lawrence and Lorsch:
    structures Differentiation (division of
    labour) calls for
    commensurate level of
    integration
    Institutional theory
    Sigapor
    DiMaggio and Powell: As
    e
    industries become
    Airlines
    institutionalized, companies
    imitate one another

    Tolbert and Zucker: Early


    adoption is related to
    internal organizational
    requirements, while late
    adoption is related to
    institutional definitions
    of legitimate structural
    form
    Social movements
    Bloombe
    rg

    Donaldson and Preston:


    companies need to take their
    stakeholders into account (not
    just pursue financial returns) Ferraro and Beunza:
    for instrumental and normative activists can push
    reasons companies into taking
    stakeholders into account
    by becoming investors and
    having dialogue with the
    management.
    Population Ecology
    Hannan and Freeman:
    Companies dont adapt, so its
    better to study them as
    species of animals and focus
    on the population as a whole

    Carroll and Swaminathan:


    Peter Generalists lead to
    Brownin specialists due to
    g population niche
    dynamics. Mergers of
    mass beer manufacturers
    lead to specialty brewers
    Sensemaking

    Weick: In social contexts such Bear


    as organizations, reality can be Stearns
    enacted by leaders

    Kaplan: The way in which


    cognition shapes action in
    organizations is through
    politics, that is, framing
    contests
    Social networks

    Granovetter: Social relations


    shape action through
    embeddedness

    Burt: and the way to


    benefit from
    embededdness is to bridge
    Josie structural holes
    Esquiv
    el
    Organizational Culture

    Kotter: What leaders do is


    shape organizational culture

    Kunda: Culture (norms,


    values, beliefs) allows for
    normative control

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