When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns / / Helmut K. Anheier, editor

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 318 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 658.4
• Soggetto topico: Business failures; Bankruptcy
• Altri autori: AnheierHelmut K. <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Europe ; Part 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 ; Chapter 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: When things go wrong
• ISBN: 0-7619-1047-6; 1-322-41658-3; 1-4522-6465-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807070103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II