The Management of Innovation,9780198288787

The Management of Innovation

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780198288787
ISBN10: 0198288786
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-12-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

First published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books of organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The central theme of the book is the relationship between an organization and its environment - particularly technological and marketinnovations.Based on first-class scholarship and engagingly written, the book presents the authors' now famous and ubiquitous classicifications of "mechanistic" and "organic" systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations andorganizational dynamics.

Author Biography


Tom Burns is Professor of Sociology, Retired, Edinburgh University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition vii
Preface to the Second Edition xxi
Introduction
1(18)
PART ONE. THE EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES
The Organization of Innovation
19(18)
The Development of the-Electronics Industry, and the Scottish Council's Scheme
37(15)
The Market Context
52(25)
PART TWO. ORGANIZATION AND CHANGE
Management Structures and System
77(19)
Mechanistic and Organic Systems of Management
96(30)
Working Organization, Political System, and Status Structure within the Concern
126(29)
The Laboratory and the Workshop
155(19)
Industrial Scientists and Managers: Problems of Power and of Status
174(35)
PART THREE. DIRECTION AND THE SHAPING OF MANAGEMENT CONDUCT
The Man at the Top
209(23)
The Shaping of Work Relationships
232(20)
Codes of Practice in Management Conduct
252(11)
References 263(4)
Index 267

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