Summary
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RUSA Notable Business Sources 2014
From agency theory to power and politics, this indispensable guide to the key concepts of organization theory is your compass as you navigate through the often complex and abstract theories about the design and functioning of organizations. Designed to complement and elucidate your textbook or reading list, as well as introduce you to concepts that some courses neglect, this historical and interdisciplinary A-Z account of the field: Helps you understand the basics of organization theory; Allows you to check your understanding of specific concepts; Fills in any gaps left by your course reading, and; Is a powerful revision tool
Each entry is consistently structured, providing a definition of the concept and why it's important to theory and practice, followed by a summary of current debates and a list of further reading. This companion will provide you with the nuts and bolts of an understanding that will serve you not just in your organization studies course, but throughout your degree and beyond.
Key concepts include: agency theory; business strategy; corporate governance; decision making; environmental uncertainty; globalization; industrial democracy; organizational change; stakeholder theory; storytelling and narrative research; technology and organization structure.
Cooperativism
Cooperativism
Cooperativism:a form of organizing based on an autonomous and voluntary association of people. Producer cooperatives are owned by members and are usually democratically run.
Origins
The formation and struggle of the cooperative movement, or cooperativism, began in the late 18th century as an alternative to capitalism and continues to this day (Corina, 1994; Jones, 1894). One of the first successful cooperatives was that of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844 in the UK to address poverty by selling food to workers. Cooperativism is also an attempt to restructure working relations into a more democratically governed organization with the goal of mutually benefiting members and/or a broader social good, for example improving health by growing and selling organic produce, supporting the local community through a ...
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