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When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns / Helmut K. Anheier, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business failures.
- Bankruptcy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 318 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines four aspects of organisational failure - organisational, political, cognitive and structural. Using real-life examples, the contributors look at various issues to differentiate between failure as a process and as an outcome.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Organizational Failures,Breakdowns,and Bankrup An Introduction; Part II - Organizations and Failure; Chapter 2 - Costly Information:Firm Transformation,Exit, or Persistent Failure; Chapter 3 - Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure: How Organizations Can Overbalance; Chapter 4 - ""Tales From the Grave'': Organizations' 3 Accounts of Their Own Demise; Chapter 5 - Organizational Coping,Failure,and Success: Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe
- Part III - The Political Economy of Failure and BankruptcyChapter 6 - Successful Failure:An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Chapter 7 - Veiled Politics:Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; Chapter 8 - The Politics of Blame Avoidance: Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime -Fighting Fiasco; Chapter 9 - Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue: Professionalization of Insolvency; Part VI - The Cognitive Construction of Failure; Chapter 10 - Prosaic Organizational Failure; Chapter 11 - Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance; Part V - Structural Failures
- Chapter 12 - Success and Failure in Institutional Development: A Network ApproachChapter 13 - Stalemate:A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; Chapter 14 - Studying Organizational Failures; References; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780761910473
- 0761910476
- 9781322416588
- 1322416583
- 9781452264653
- 1452264651
- OCLC:
- 808342284
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