Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

Introduction

JAMES G. MARCH

The effort represented by this Handbook is a simple one. We wish to summarize and report the present state of knowledge about human organizations. The intended audience is threefold: (a) To the growing numbers of active research scientists studying organizations, we hope the Handbook will provide a ready compendium of results, references, concepts, ideas, and theories. (b) To the large numbers of practicing members and managers of organizations, we hope the Handbook will suggest both ideas of potential interest and relevance and the more general possibility of a natural coalition between academics concerned with organization theory and managers facing the operating problems of organizations. (c) To the students of ...