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- Helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Barnard’s organization theory
- Sheds light on how Barnard developed his theory after his first publication
- Offers practitioners useful tips on how to explore and create new styles of management
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This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard’s organization theory. Barnard’s book The Functions of the Executive is a classic that, along with Herbert Simon’s Administrative Behavior, is often considered to be essential reading for management students. However, it is well known to be difficult and abstract. Offering a systematic overview, this book provides an excellent introduction to Barnard’s organization theory.
Chester Barnard’s concept of formal organization is often cited as a definitive opus on the subject of organization. However, he provided other concepts of organization, such as cooperative systems, complex formal organizations, and informal organizations. In his second book, Organization and Management, he added two more concepts, lateral organizations and status systems, allowing researchers to gain a better understanding of how Barnard developed his organization theory after his first publication.Barnard was a successful practitioner as well as a theorist, and his organization theory is full of practical insights gained from managing various types of organizations, including NGOs and NPOs. This book discusses how Barnard’s organization theory can be applied to business practices in the context of exploring a new style of management, and provides suggestions for business people seeking innovations for their own organizations.
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About the author
Kazuhito Isomura is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the School of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining Chuo University, he was an Associate Professor at Fukushima University, Faculty of Economics, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was also a Professor of the MBA program at Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting before moving to the School of Science and Engineering. He holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University, Japan. He is a leading expert on Chester Barnard’s management thought, and his research areas include leadership development, corporate strategy, knowledge management, and management history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organization Theory by Chester Barnard
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Kazuhito Isomura
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9206-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9205-8Published: 27 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9206-5Published: 26 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5482
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 95
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business and Management, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Political Science, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology