Economic Decline and Organizational Control

by Barbara Czarniawska

Czarniawska-Joerges here presents the first systematic study of how organizational control processes and economic decline are related. As the author notes in her introduction, the typical organizational response to economic stress is a tightening of control--efforts to cut expenses, lay off employees, prescribe budgetary constraints, and more. But, she argues, such a reaction may not be the most beneficial in returning the organization to economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593277X
• ISBN13: 9780275932770
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"