Derek Pugh & David J. Hickson 
Writers on Organizations [PDF ebook] 

Introduction to the Sixth Edition
1 The Structure of Organizations
Max Weber
Derek Pugh and the Aston Group, including John Child and David Hickson
Lex Donaldson
Alfred D. Chandler
Oliver E. Williamson
Henry Mintzberg
Charles Handy
Stewart Clegg
Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
2 The Organization in its Environment
Tom Burns
Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik
Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow
Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman
Geert Hofstede
Richard Whitley
3 Management and Decision-making in Organizations
Henri Fayol
Frederick W. Taylor
Peter F. Drucker
Michel Foucault
Herbert A. Simon
James G. March
Karl E. Weick
4 People in Organizations
Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Investigations
Rensis Likert and Douglas Mc Gregor
Edgar H. Schein
Frederick Herzberg
Eric Trist and the Work of the Tavistock Institute
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
5 Organizational Change and Learning
Paul J. Di Maggio and Walter W. Powell
Andrew Pettigrew
Chris Argyris
Peter Senge
Kathleen Eisenhardt
Gareth Morgan
About the Authors

David J. Hickson is Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organization at Bradford School of Management, England. His prin­cipal research interests are how societal culture affects managerial decision making in different nations and what influences the success of major decisions. His previous research has included processes of mana­gerial decision making, power in organizations, and bureaucratization. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the international research journal Organization Studies; a founder of the European research association in his field, the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); and a founding member of the British Academy of Management. He has held appointments in university business schools and research institutes in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands, has an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Umea in Sweden, and has lectured widely around the world. He has published numerous research journal papers and book chapters and is author or editor of eight books, most recently Management in Western Europe (1993, De Gruyter) and Management Worldwide: Distinctive Styles Amid Globalization ( enhanced ed, 2001, Penguin Books, with Derek S. Pugh). Prior to becoming an academic, David Hickson worked in financial administration and qualified profes­sionally as a chartered secretary and in personnel management.