A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations

"American Sociological Review"This is an important book....It classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systematically examines variations among different types of organization....The scope of Etizioni's approach include a wide variety of organizations, from religious societies to concentration camps...valuable reading for all students of organization.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the First Edition

Introduction to the Revised and Enlarged Edition

Part One: TOWARD AN ANALYTICAL TYPOLOGY

I. Compliance as a Comparative Base

II. An Analytical Classification: Coercive and Utilitarian Organizations

III. An Analytical Classification: Normative and Dual Organizations

IV. The Compliance Thesis Revisited

Part Two: CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCE: GOALS, EFFECTIVENESS, AND ELITES

V. Compliance, Goals, and Effectiveness

VI. Goals and Effectiveness Revisited

VII. Compliance and Organizational Elites

VIII. Compliance and Elites Revisited

Part Three: OTHER CORRELATES OF COMPLIANCE

IX. Compliance and Cultural Integration: Consensus, Communication, and Socialization

X. Compliance and Organizational Environment: Recruitment, Scope, and Pervasiveness

XI. Cohesion and Compliance

XII. Compliance and the Distribution of Charisma

XIII. Organizational Controls of Charisma

XIV. Other Correlates Revisited

XV. Other Correlates Revisited: A Causal Analysis

Part Four: COMPLIANCE IN A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE

XVI. Concomitant and Successive Division of Compliance

XVII. New Directions

List of New Compliance Studies Cited

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index