LEADER 03285nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910807070103321 005 20240410184528.0 010 $a0-7619-1047-6 010 $a1-322-41658-3 010 $a1-4522-6465-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000339179 035 $a(EBL)3032395 035 $a(OCoLC)808342284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000675985 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12288220 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675985 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10676415 035 $a(PQKB)10860515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032395 035 $a(OCoLC)1007860159 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000063621 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000339179 100 $a20120315d1999 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWhen things go wrong $eorganizational failures and breakdowns /$fHelmut K. Anheier, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aThousand Oaks, Calif. ;$aLondon $cSAGE$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 318 p.) $cill 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4522-3145-1 311 $a0-7619-1048-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Europe 327 $aPart 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 Failures 327 $aChapter 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 Contributors 330 8 $aThis 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. 606 $aBusiness failures 606 $aBankruptcy 615 0$aBusiness failures. 615 0$aBankruptcy. 676 $a658.4 701 $aAnheier$b Helmut K.$f1954-$0120851 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807070103321 996 $aWhen things go wrong$94011600 997 $aUNINA