Tracks and Frames

This path-breaking book unifies central parts of organization and management theory that have thus far been fragmented and unconnected. It integrates prior research on organizational types and transitions, and also spawns a number of new incipient theories about organizational transformations. The book develops the framework of a "symbolic economy" in which organizations are viewed as fundamentally concerned with symbol-processing devices. A key notion is "planning cultures" -- global mental representations of an organization, or collective frames of mind expressing different levels of strategic capacity.

-- A path-breaking book unifying central parts of organization and management theory

-- Will help both students and researchers achieve a deeper and richer understanding of organization and management and their changes

-- Will help managers understand what their real choices are as their organizations evolve ever more rapidly into the future