The short and glorious history of organizational theory

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Perrow
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Decolonizing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Framework for Organizing

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Ann Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Organizational Model ◽  
Hispanic Serving Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Framework ◽  
Hispanic Serving ◽  
Organizational Approach

Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) should realign their organizational approach in order to liberate themselves and their students. As colonized institutions enrolling colonized people, HSIs must recognize their history of colonialism before moving toward an organizational model grounded in decolonization. The Organizational Framework for Decolonizing HSIs has nine elements and is grounded in organizational theory, yet it challenges the white normative ways in which postsecondary institutions have been studied and the models that have been used to organize them.

Administering Interdisciplinary Programs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karri Holley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Programs ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Disciplinary Cultures

The lengthy history of interdisciplinary activity in higher education offers important lessons about developing, administering, and assessing interdisciplinary programs. A deepening body of literature surrounding higher education studies and organizational theory surrounds these lessons. This literature acknowledges that, like any other system, higher education institutions face multiple influences from both internal and external stakeholders. This interaction requires an understanding of the environment in which higher education institutions operate. This chapter begins from the position of a changing environment for higher education to consider the challenges associated with administering interdisciplinary programs. After establishing organizational norms unique to higher education institutions, the chapter considers three specific areas: (1) the role of boundaries in shaping the university, and how interdisciplinary programs negotiate these boundaries; (2) the persistence of disciplinary cultures, and their impact on interdisciplinary programs; and (3) the resource challenge for contemporary higher education, and how this debate affects interdisciplinary activities.

scholarly journals The history of transaction cost economics and its recent developments

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Hardt
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Positive Knowledge

The emergence of transaction cost economics (TCE) in the early 1970s with Oliver Williamson's successful reconciliation of the so-called neoclassical approach with Herbert Simon's organizational theory can be considered an important part of the first cognitive turn in economics. The development of TCE until the late 1980s was particularly marked by treating the firm as an avoider of negative frictions, i.e., of transaction costs. However, since the 1990s TCE has been enriched by various approaches stressing the role of the firm in creating positive value, e.g., the literature on modularity. Hence, a second cognitive turn has taken place: the firm is no longer only seen as an avoider of negative costs but also as a creator of positive knowledge.

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