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Organizational Pathology - Life and Death of Organizations (Hardcover)
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Organizational Pathology draws an extended metaphor that the life
cycle of an organization is akin to the biological life cycle. Like
all living things, organizations will encounter problems that lead
to decline and eventual failure. This work discusses the basic
problems and life threatening diseases responsible for
organizations' failure and death, including organizational
politics, organizational corruption, and organizational crime. The
book also contains a critical look at crises and fixations; failure
and survival; and processes of disbandment and closure of dying
organizations. The consideration of these issues follows a
diagnostic model of failure. Yitzhak Samuel argues that if the
problems that lead to failure can be predicted or diagnosed early,
their severity can be assessed and possible remedies can be
implemented to avoid escalating crises. At the very least, an
understanding of why and how decline happens can be gained from
this analysis. This book offers facts about the causes and
consequences of organizational downfall and clues about diagnoses
of certain symptoms of abnormal behavior, and how to identify early
signs of decline or failure. In order to illustrate these abstract
arguments and concepts, Samuel uses various real-life examples of
events that have occurred in cross-country contexts. In this way,
Organizational Pathology: Life and Death of Organizations should
serve a variety of readers. Although primarily intended for
students and scholars in the social and behavioral sciences who are
familiar with the study and the practice of organizations, this
book's informal style makes it easily accessible to a wide range of
readers. Just as Samuel's previous book on organizational politics
led to new lines of research and theory, this book will encourage
similar studies in organizational pathology and institutional
malaise.
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