The New Sciences Organizations : : A Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations / / Alberto Guerreiro Ramos.

For the past eighty years, the market-centred theory of social and organizational systems has dominated private enterprise and public agencies. The late Professor Ramos exposes the failure of social science in general, and organizational theory in particular, to deal adequately with the needs of hum...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1981
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Critique of Modern Reason and Its Bearing upon Organization Theory
  • 2. Towards a Substantive Theory of Human Associated Life
  • 3. The Behavioral Syndrome
  • 4. Misplacement of Concepts and Organization Theory
  • 5. Cognitive Politics: The Psychology of the Market-Centered Society
  • 6. A Substantive Approach to Organizations
  • 7. Theory of Social Systems Delimitation: A Paradigmatic Statement
  • 8. The Law of Requisite Adequacy and Social Systems Design
  • 9. Para-economy: Paradigm and Multicentric Allocative Model
  • 10. Overview and Prospects of the New Science
  • Notes and References
  • Index