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The New Sciences Organizations
A Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (Author)
9780802065612
Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1981
224 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg
‘Ramos’s pages are illuminated by brilliant rhetoric that one cannot but applaud. This is clearly an important book in the development of organization theory.’ Times Higher Education Supplement ‘Guerreiro Ramos’s propositions about organizations are subtle and surprising…[his] analysis of our present discontents and their roots is powerful.’ American Political Science Review ‘Ramos, an internationally respected sociologist and public administrator, has produced an unusually taxing and challenging book…For those at all concerned with the direction of organizing theory, Ramos has taken an important step. AS such, the book should be rememberd as a signficiant work in the science of organization for some time.’ Choice ‘…a nicely argued, thought-provoking work.’ Congressional Staff Journal
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 humanity in search of a meaning and order of existence and presents and alternative, a new science of organizations which address the problems of ordering social and personal affairs in both ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ perspectives.