IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-319-16916-3_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Organisational Theories and Models

In: Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training

Author

Listed:
  • Pietro Previtali

    (University of Pavia)

Abstract

The intent of this chapter is to illustrate various organisational theories that were developed in the last century, beginning from “scientific management”, also called “Taylorism”, to the more recent theories of “population ecology”, “new institutionalism” and “transaction cost theory”. We will illustrate the current state of organisational theories and follow its evolution along paths both convergent and divergent, before arriving at a point where an unequivocal understanding of organisational theories and models is difficult. Our attention will then turn to neo-institutional theory, and we will explore how organisations attempt to incorporate norms by drawing from their environments. Here, we illustrate the concept of “institutional isomorphism” as a fundamental explanation for the homogenisation of organisational forms and compliance to norms and laws by articulating three distinct types: “mimetic isomorphism”, “normative isomorphism” and “coercive isomorphism”.

Suggested Citation

  • Pietro Previtali, 2015. "Organisational Theories and Models," Springer Books, in: Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 1-16, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-16916-3_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16916-3_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-16916-3_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.