The Legalistic Organization [Hardcover]

In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings - managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book.In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings - managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book.Introduction - Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies
Preface - Mark G Yudof
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT
Law and Organizations - W Richard Scott
The Legalization of Organizations - Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies
A Multi-Theoretical Perspective
PART TWO: LEGALISTIC PROCEDURES
Cops and Auditors - John Van Maanen and Brian T Pentland
The Rhetoric of Records
Contracting Without Contracts - Michael J Smitka
How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions
Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity - Martha S Feldman and Alan J Levy
PART THREE: LEGALISTIC CRITERIA IN DECISION MAKING
Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization - Nancy L Roth, Sim B Sitkin and Ann House
The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making - Donna M Randall and DolC%