Foreword by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Pfeiffer, Jeffrey

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“…In scientific communities, paradigms reflect research methodologies, curriculum, and topical research issues. In the business community, these paradigms are consensus on marketing strategies, profits, and connections between operations and strategies (Pfeffer, 1981). For the purposes of sensemaking, paradigms are sets of recurrent and quasi-standard illustrations that show how theories of action are applied conceptually, observationally, and instrumentally to representative organizational problems.…”

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Socializacao para a cultura academica: um marco de investigacao

Mendoza¹

2008

rev. estud. soc.

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Socializacao para a cultura academica: um marco de investigacao

Mendoza¹

2008

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“…The demise of the Penn Central is an instance of this process although there the holding company pauperized the railroad to benefit their other subsidiaries (Fitch and Oppenheimer, 1970). Although his study focuses on short-run results, Pfeffer (1972) suggests that merger is not generally profitable despite the advantages of economies of scale, oligopolistic pricing, lessened competition, and increased lobbying. Mergers can have negative consequences for the economy as a whole even if individual conglomerates may profit.…”

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Managerial Strategies and the Worker: a Marxist Analysis of Bureaucracy

Goldman

Houten²

1977

The Sociological Quarterly

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Systematic study of the sociology of organizations is almost absent in both the classical and modern Marxist traditions. Although some recent studies in the Marxist tradition show considerable promise, the field has been dominated by the Webenan perspective. The development of new theory should be informed by the Marxian concepts of (a) labor theory of value, (b) the forces and relations of production, (c) historical development of capitalism, and (d) class structure and class struggle. Bourgeois organizational theory has some serious deficiencies, but there is much of value that can be subsumed under the broader rubric of Marxist political economy. The potential for a Marxist theory of bureaucracy is explored in an examination of managerial strategies to minimize external uncertainties in a monopoly capitalist system, and internal uncertainties arising from the work force. Strategies for controlling the work force include the division of labor, organizational hierarchy, rules and procedures, the uses of secrecy and hoarding of knowledge, and the maintenance ofethnic and sexual divisions in the work force. Further research is needed on (a) differentiating capital accumulation and social control strategies, (b) comparisons between workers in the state and corporate sectors, (c) comparisons between work organization under full range of socialist economies and those in capitalist economies in both manufacturing and government and (d) alternatives for the future. SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF T H E SOCIOLOGY of organizations is almost absent in both the classical and modern Marxist traditions. Marxist scholars have given little attention to the bureaucratic aspects of the labor process and have thus left us without a sophisticated understanding of how managerial decision making and the institution of "bureaucratic rationality" have served the purposes of capital accumulation and social control of the work force during the capitalist epoch. This inattention has limited our knowledge of the structural contradictions of capitalist administrative practice.For the most part Marxists have ceded this area of intellectual inquiry to professors of business administration and to sociologists who take the Weberian perspective as a point of departure. Both Giddens (1973) and Wright (1974) have described the disjunction between the Marxian and Weberian traditions in a fashion that is suggestive for the study of the industrial enterprise. Wright notes:Marxists have generally continued to focus on the dynamics and contradictions of capitalist society seen as a total system, while paying relatively little attention to the organizational dynamics of the state . . . Analvsts in the Weberian tradition in contrast. have continued to treat organizations in isolation &om the social contradictions in which they are embedded (1974: 103).We hope in this paper to begin to synthesize these divergent viewpoints, and subsume current bourgeois' administrative and sociological theory and research under the broader rubric of Marxist political economy. Recent...

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Foreword by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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Socializacao para a cultura academica: um marco de investigacao

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