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When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns / Helmut K. Anheier, editor.
| Other author | Anheier, Helmut K., 1954- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1999. |
| Description | ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Organizational failures, breakdowns, and bankruptcies : an introduction / Helmut K. Anheier, Lynne Moulton -- Costly information : firm transformation, exit, or persistent failure / Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby -- Decision overreach as a reason for failure : how organizations can overbalance / David Wilson, David J. Hickson, Susan J. Miller -- "Tales from the grave" : organizations' accounts of their own demise / Mark Hager ... [et al.] -- Organizational coping, failure, and success : academies of sciences in Central and Eastern Europe / Renate Mayntz -- Successful failure : an alternative view of organizational coping / Wolfgang Seibel -- Veiled politics : bankruptcy as a structured organizatonal field / Kevin J. Delaney -- Politics of blame avoidance : defensive tactics in a Dutch crime-fighting fiasco / Mark Bovens ... [et al.] -- Creating the agents of corporate rescue : professionalization of insolvency / Terence C. Halliday, Bruce G. Carruthers -- Prosaic organizational failure / Lee Clarke, Charles Perrow -- Permanent failure and the failure of organizational performance / Marshall W. Meyer -- Success and failure in institutional development : a network approach ; Stalemate : a structural analysis of organizational failure / Frank P. Romo, Helmut K. Anheier -- Studying organizational failures / Helmut K. Anheier, Lynne Moulton. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98025537 |
| ISBN | 0761910476 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0761910484 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |