The sociology of organizations: classic, contemporary, and critical readings

1. Bureaucracy and Legitimate Authority (1924) / Max Weber

2. Principles of Scientific Management (1911) / Frederick W. Taylor

3. Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974) / Harry Braverman

4. Management of Innovation (1961) / Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker

5. Technology and Organization (1965) / Joan Woodward

6. Measurement of Organization Structures (1973) / D. S. Pugh

7. Hawthorne Experiments (1941) / George C. Homans

8. Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker, and Class Bias in Psychology (1981) / Dana Bramel and Ronald Friend

9. Human Side of Enterprise (1957) / Douglas McGregor

10. From Control to Commitment in the Workplace (1985) / Richard E. Walton

11. Different Kind of Company: From Control to Commitment in Practice (2002) / Saul A. Rubinstein

12. Inside a Japanese Transplant: A Critical Perspective (1993) / Laurie Graham

13. Conflicts Between Staff and Line Managerial Officers (1950) / Melville Dalton

14. World of Corporate Managers (1988) / Robert Jackall

15. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Market Capitalism (1979) / Michael Burawoy

16. Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969) / Graham Allison

17. Organizations and Oligarchy (1915) / Robert Michels

18. External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (1978) / Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik

19. Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (1983) / Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell

20. Density-Dependent Processes (2000) / Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan

21. Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior. Agency Costs and Ownership Structure (1976) / Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling

22. Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach (1981) / Oliver E. Williamson

23. Markets, Hierarchies, and Hegemony (1981) / Charles Perrow

24. Emergence of Managerial Capitalism (1984) / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

25. Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization (1990) / Walter W. Powell

26. Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility (1994) / Bennett Harrison

27. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation (1992) / Gideon Kunda

28. Men and Women of the Corporation (1977) / Rosabeth Moss Kanter

29. Black Mobility in White Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder But Out on a Limb (1997) / Sharon Collins

30. Segmented Labor Markets (1979) / Richard Edwards

31. Access Process: Loopholes as a System (1992) / Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl and Denise Scott

32. Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies (1984) / Charles Perrow

33. Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations: The Challenger Launch Decision (1998) / Diane Vaughan

34. Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models (1979) / Joyce Rothschild-Whitt

35. Worker Ownership, Participation, and Control: Toward a Theoretical Model (2002) / William Foote Whyte, Joseph R. Blasi and Douglas Lynn Kruse

36. Street-Level Bureaucracy (1980) / Michael Lipsky.