The Organization of Business in Modern Britain [Paperback]

Using the published research of sociologists, economists, and management academics, Stephen Ackroyd develops a full account of the distictive characteristics of British business and its forms of organization. Succint and clearly-written, this is the ideal text for students coming to these subjects for the first time.

PROVISIONAL CONTENTS ONLY:
1. Why Study Organizations?
2. The Concept of Organizational Structure
3. The Corporation as a Set of Relationships
4. Small and Medium Companies
5. The Large Corporation in Britain
6. New Corporate Forms
7. Organizational Fields
8. Reorganized Capitalism and the British Economy
9. Organization Theory and the Problem of Policy

Stephen Ackroyd is Professor of Organizational Analysis in the Management School of Lancaster University.