Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations, Rev. Ed.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the First Edition

Introduction to the Revised and Enlarged Edition

Part One: TOWARD AN ANALYTICAL TYPOLOGY

I. Compliance as a Comparative Base

II. An Analytical Classification: Coercive and Utilitarian Organizations

III. An Analytical Classification: Normative and Dual Organizations

IV. The Compliance Thesis Revisited

Part Two: CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCE: GOALS, EFFECTIVENESS, AND ELITES

V. Compliance, Goals, and Effectiveness

VI. Goals and Effectiveness Revisited

VII. Compliance and Organizational Elites

VIII. Compliance and Elites Revisited

Part Three: OTHER CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCE

IX. Compliance and Cultural Integration: Consensus, Communication, and Socialization

X. Compliance and Organizational Environment: Recruitment, Scope, and Pervasiveness

XI. Cohesion and Compliance

XII. Compliance and the Distribution of Charisma

XIII. Organizational Controls of Charisma

XIV. Other Correlates Revisited

XV. Other Correlates Revisited: A Causal Analysis

Part Four: COMPLIANCE IN A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE

XVI. Concomitant and Successive Division of Compliance

XVII. New Directions

List of New Compliance Studies Cited

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index
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American Sociological Review This is an important book....It classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systematically examines variations among different types of organization....The scope of Etizioni's approach include a wide variety of organizations, from religious societies to concentration camps...valuable reading for all students of organization. The Annals American Academy of Political and Social Science ...a challenging and fresh approach to an important area which has, in general, leaned too closely and too heavily for too long a time on the giant contributions of Max Weber. American Political Science Review ....the analysis of Charisma, and the critique of Weber's well-known discussion of this phenomenon, are among the best things in the book. Personnel Psychology Etzioni breaks into new territory....Perhaps now the ideas planted so long ago by Barnard and Simon will receive the nurture which they so deserve...a contribution of significance.
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Amitai Etzioni is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Center for Policy Research. His other books include Political Unification and The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes.
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