Industrial Organization
Theory and Practice
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 1980
- ISBN 9780198741220
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 216x138x20 mm
- Weight 410 g
- Language English
- Illustrations text-figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Hailed as a "classic" when it was first published in 1965, this book is still of practical value and remains an important starting point for the study of all contributions to organizational theory since the mid-sixties. Woodward tested current theories of organization and looked into why some organizational structures appear more successful than others, finding that the relationship between technology and formal structure is important for success.
MoreLong description:
This book has rightly been described as a "classic" in the history of organizational theory. First published in 1965 it was then compared in significance to the Hawthorne studies; it was a major contribution to the devlopment of contingency theory and our understanding of the relationship between technology and organizations.
The book stood in marked contrast to the traditions of scientific management. Combining detailed empirical research and a pioneering analytical framework it suggested that technology and production systems played acrucial role in shaping effective organizational structures. In doing so Woodward offered lasting insights into issues of levels of hierarchy and spans of management control - issues that today might be discussed in terms of "delayering" and "process re-engineering".
Not surprisingly Woodward's work was a springboard for much subsequent research and many of her specific observations have been widely debated and challenged. Yet, as Sandra Dawson and Dorothy Wedderburn write in their Introduction, "the main thesis of the book is well known...however, this is a book where to know its main thesis is no substitute for reading the book itself. Joan Woodward's ideas remain one of the cornerstones of our knowledge of our organizations."
`Woodward made a lasting contribution to the school of contingency theory ... Woodward's findings - notably that different types of production process had particular structures, management hierarchies, and "spans on control" ... remain relevant today ... Much of what she discovered has been incorporated into received management wisdom.'
Financial Times
