Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (5th Edition)

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Summary: Great book!!
Review: As a novice to organization theory, I am reading Hal Rainey's book on public organizations and this book. This book is well written and gives balanced points of view over various theories and perspectives in the organization studies. This book is adopted as required readings in many PhD courses on organization theory.

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Summary: PhD student from Navarre, FL
Review: This book is poorly organized and poorly written. I do not recommend this book as a good text book for organizational theory and practices.

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Summary: The field of organizations is characterized by a diversity o
Review: This book, i.e., Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (5th Edition) by W. Richard Scott presents the field of organizations as being characterized by a diversity of models and theories. Very much recommended.