Organisation Theories
Among the theories that are or have been most influential are:
- Enterprise architecture, is the conceptual model that defines the coalescence of organizational structure and organizational behavior.
- Actor-Network Theory
- Agency theory (sometimes called principal - agent theory)
- Contingency theory
- Complexity theory and organizations
- Critical management studies
- Economic sociology
- Garbage Can Model
- Scientific management (mainly following Frederick W. Taylor)
- Social entrepreneurship
- Transaction cost economics
- Weberian organization theory (refer to Max Weber's chapter on Bureaucracy in his book 'Economy and Society')
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