Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Organizations written by Joel Baum and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the research of more than 50 influential international scholars, this extensive interdisciplinary survey consolidates and evaluates what is known and not known about organizations, and critically examines how we learn about and study them. Contributors include 50 influential international scholars. Contributions represent the most important contemporary perspectives on organizations, including networks, ecology and technology. Each topic is covered at three levels of organization: intraorganizational, organizational, and interorganizational. Chapters structured around five common elements for ease of use.