Concept information
Preferred term
approaches to organization theory
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- autopoiesis
- behavioral theory of the firm
- chaos theory
- classical management
- closed system approach
- collective social phenomena
- complexity theory
- complex organizations
- configuration theory
- convergence model
- critical modernists
- cybernetics
- deinstitutionalization
- economic sociology
- engineering-managerial discourse
- environmental determinism
- equity theory
- ergonomics
- evolutionary theory
- expectancy theory
- formal organizations
- functionalism
- gendered organizations
- general systems theory
- Hawthorne studies
- historical analysis in organization theory
- historical analysis of organization theory
- Human Relations School
- institutional isomorphism
- institutional legitimacy
- institutional theory
- interaction analysis
- interactionism
- interpretive theory
- life cycle
- literary theory
- long-wave theory
- management fashions and fads
- managerialism
- metaphor and organization
- middle-range theory
- narratives
- neocontingency model
- neoinstitutional theory
- new institutionalism
- new public management
- open systems
- organizational adaptation
- organizational demography
- organizational ecology
- organizational economics
- organizational environments
- organizational field
- organizational rhetoric
- organizational theory
- positive organizational scholarship
- postcolonial theory
- public choice theory
- radical feminism
- radical humanism
- resource-based view of the firm
- resource dependence
- social constructionism
- social system
- sociological approach
- sociology of work and employment
- strategic choice
- structural contingency theory
- structural functionalism
- structuration
- symbolic interactionism
- theory X
- theory Y
- theory Z
- time-space relations
- transnational/postcolonial feminist theorizing
- viable system model
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/approaches_to_organization_theory
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