03308nam 2200589 a 450 991080707010332120240410184528.00-7619-1047-61-322-41658-31-4522-6465-1(CKB)2670000000339179(EBL)3032395(OCoLC)808342284(SSID)ssj0000675985(PQKBManifestationID)12288220(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675985(PQKBWorkID)10676415(PQKB)10860515(MiAaPQ)EBC3032395(OCoLC)1007860159(StDuBDS)EDZ0000063621(EXLCZ)99267000000033917920120315d1999 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWhen things go wrong[electronic resource] organizational failures and breakdowns /Helmut K. Anheier, editor1st ed.Thousand Oaks, Calif. ;London SAGE19991 online resource (ix, 318 p.) illDescription based upon print version of record.1-4522-3145-1 0-7619-1048-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Organizational Failures,Breakdowns,and Bankrup An Introduction; Part II - Organizations and Failure; Chapter 2 - Costly Information:Firm Transformation,Exit, or Persistent Failure; Chapter 3 - Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure: How Organizations Can Overbalance; Chapter 4 - ""Tales From the Grave'': Organizations' 3 Accounts of Their Own Demise; Chapter 5 - Organizational Coping,Failure,and Success: Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern EuropePart III - The Political Economy of Failure and BankruptcyChapter 6 - Successful Failure:An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Chapter 7 - Veiled Politics:Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; Chapter 8 - The Politics of Blame Avoidance: Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime -Fighting Fiasco; Chapter 9 - Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue: Professionalization of Insolvency; Part VI - The Cognitive Construction of Failure; Chapter 10 - Prosaic Organizational Failure; Chapter 11 - Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance; Part V - Structural FailuresChapter 12 - Success and Failure in Institutional Development: A Network ApproachChapter 13 - Stalemate:A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; Chapter 14 - Studying Organizational Failures; References; Index; About the Editor; About the ContributorsThis book examines four aspects of organisational failure - organisational, political, cognitive and structural. Using real-life examples, the contributors look at various issues to differentiate between failure as a process and as an outcome.Business failuresBankruptcyBusiness failures.Bankruptcy.658.4Anheier Helmut K.1954-120851StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910807070103321When things go wrong4011600UNINA