The Modern Corporation and Private Property2 reviews Adolph Berle, Gardiner Means Transaction Publishers, 1991 The Unvarnished Truth About 6 years ago I visited the White Eagle Conference Center in beautiful central New York. This is a quaint place that must have been a real marquee in its time. On one of their obviously long under used book shelves (seemed like nothing had been touched for at least 2 decades) I noticed this ...             Exchange and Power in Social Life2 reviews Peter Blau Transaction Publishers, 1986 Ahead of its time + Another Hurrah for Blau after all these years I first read Exchange and Power in Social Life as a graduate student in the early 1970s. What amazes me is to reread it in 1999 to see how Blau explains the way in which power is legitimated through exchange. His insights of 30 years ago now help us understand how large organizations can gain ...             When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations Arthur L. Stinchcombe University Of Chicago Press, 2001 In this innovative exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes new life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored in recent years. We have come to assume that governing our social activities by advance planning—by creating abstract descriptions of what ought to happen and adjusting these descriptions as situations change—is ...             Behavioral Theory of the Firm2 reviews Richard Cyert, James March Wiley-Blackwell, 1992 Selected quotations + Decision-making within organizations We start with the simple conception that an organizational decision is the execution of a choice made in terms of objectives from among a set of alternatives on the basis of available information. This leads to the examination of how orgnizational objectives are formed, how strategies are evolved, ...             The Firm, the Market, and the Law14 reviews R. H. Coase University Of Chicago Press, 1990 Coase is certainly worthy of his Nobel + New Institutional Economics + The Brilliance of Ronald Coase... + Comentario del prof. González Vázquez + Fifty years of Coase             Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy18 reviews Joseph A. Schumpeter Harper Perennial, 1962 Liz Rogers' Review of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy + A masterpiece regarding the themes of socialism's rise and capitalism's decay and decline + Good Analysis, Bad Predictions + Not by bread alone             The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition183 reviews F. A. Hayek University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Brilliant prima facie case against socialism + Too bad we aren't taking this advice + Please America take down your safety net...it is why we are great + Required Reading for Steadfast Leftists             The Functions of the Executive: 30th Anniversary Edition6 reviews Chester I. Barnard Harvard University Press, 2007 Excellent, optimistic, human-centered management text + Demands Executives must meet + The Functions of the Executive by Chester I.Barnard + Surprises from the past             The Principles of Scientific Management18 reviews Frederick Winslow Taylor Cosimo Classics, 2006 Insight into the Capitalist Mindset + Thin Book with Rich Content + Recommended from historical perspective This book provides an incredible insight into the capitalist mindset and its (dehumanizing) treatment of employees, whereby employees are treated as objects which need to be squeezed to extract the most labor possible. If you've seen the documentary 'The Corporation,' you might remember that time ...             The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization Max Weber Free Press, 1997             The Theory of the Growth of the Firm3 reviews Edith T. Penrose Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 Ground-Breaking and Fascinating + A classic that has guided management academics for decades + A richly rewarding read This book helped provide the foundation for what has become known as the resource-based view of the firm (RBV). Back in 1959, when the male gender dominated the economics discipline, Ms. Penrose set out to answer this question: Was there "something inherent in the very nature of any firm that both ...             The Economic Institutions of Capitalism4 reviews Oliver E. Williamson Free Press, 1998 Why hadn't I heard more about this sooner? + Very useful for corporate lawyers + A classic of new institutional economics + Great for expanded understanding of vertical integration             The Social Psychology of Organizing (Topics in Social Psychology Series)5 reviews Karl E Weick McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1979 A grammar for understanding + The Social Psychology of Organizing + Do something. Now decide what have you done. + The best book on organizations that I have ever read + Understanding how organizations really work             Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise3 reviews Alfred Dupont Chandler Beard Books, 1996 Strategy drives structure while structure drives strategy + Such a great fundamental perspective on the analysis of a business + Strategy and Structure Chandler's book is excellent and I find myself reading it again and again as I mature as a manager. I ask myself why do some organizations act and seem so different from others? Well, Chandler's book points the way to at least some of those reasons. Using Harvard's Case Method, Chandler is ...             The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (Stanford Business Classics) Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald Salancik Stanford Business Books, 2003 Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its ...             Risk, Uncertainty And Profit5 reviews Frank Hyneman Knight Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 Model of how economic problems should be analyzed + Uncertainty and the Market + One of the classics in economics + Before Knight there was Schumpeter and Keynes + Get this classic back in print!             An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (Belknap Press) Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter Belknap Press, 2006 This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ineffective in the analysis ...             The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis6 reviews University Of Chicago Press, 1991 A useful introduction to neoinstitutional theory + Captures the heart of institutional theory + The Renaissance of Institutions + Major Works Collected with a Valuable Introductory Chapter             Risk, Uncertainty And Profit5 reviews Frank Hyneman Knight Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 Model of how economic problems should be analyzed + Uncertainty and the Market + One of the classics in economics + Before Knight there was Schumpeter and Keynes + Get this classic back in print!             The Modern Corporation and Private Property2 reviews Adolph Berle, Gardiner Means Transaction Publishers, 1991 The Unvarnished Truth About 6 years ago I visited the White Eagle Conference Center in beautiful central New York. This is a quaint place that must have been a real marquee in its time. On one of their obviously long under used book shelves (seemed like nothing had been touched for at least 2 decades) I noticed this ...