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Chapter 1: the subject is organization, the verb is organizing (Defining…

- - - - Resource dependecy theory
      - Government
      - Cultural arrengements
    - - strategic type 1: prospectors: innovative products
      - Strategic type 2: Defenders, efficiencies and internal processes.
      - Strategic type3 analyzers: a combination of both
      - other, low cost aproach
      - differentiation
      - focus
    - - work, the tasks that the organization needs to accomplish the goals.
      - to view the organization as a place where energy is applied to the transformation of materials, as a mechanism for transforming inputs into outputs.
    - - human resource practices
      - job design, fragmentation of work and boredomness
      - organizational structure. authority relations and patterns of communication
    - - culture, patters beliefs, expectations
      - social networks. connections among individuals in the organization
      - Power and politics how individual and units persue agendas.
  - - - structuration. This argument reminds us that social structures only exist to the extent that people act in ways to reproduce ongoing patterns of action.5 Social structures are comprised of rules or schema (models for behavior) and resources (both material and human) which acquire their meaning and value from the schema applicable to them.
      - Giddens’s formulation also reinforces the need to take a more dynamic view of social structure and behavior. Rather than focusing on a stable, static, cross-sectional view of an organizational structure, it reminds us to consider the ways in which moment by moment, day by day, and year by year, structures are undergoing transformation, th
- - - - social conflict version views social order as resulting from the suppression of some interests by others. Order results not from consensus, but from coercion, the dominance of weaker by more powerful groups. And analytic attention is devoted not to the appearance of consensus, but to the reality of underlying conflicts, which provide a basis for understanding instability and change.
      - social consensus social order (of any type) is a reflection of underlying consensus among the participants; that organizational stability and continuity reflect the existence of cooperative behavior and shared norms and values.