"It has been claimed that organization theory is in a state of 'crisis'. This book traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organization studies from its foundations in positivist sociology, through its theoretical and empirical development under structural-…
Paradigms in theory construction
Dieses Lehrbuch stellt sechs ausgewählte soziologische Theorierichtungen aus der Zeit nach Talcott Parsons vor: Konflikttheorie, Gesellschaftskritik, das Interpretative Paradigma, die Systemtheorie, die Theorie der Rationalen Wahl und schließlich den Strukturalismus. Dabei werde…
How did the pursuit of economic growth become the core goal of economic policymaking? Focussing on the OECD, Schmelzer offers a first transnational history of growth discourse, tracing how the methods employed to measure, model and prescribe growth resulted in new statistical st…
