Refining Familiar Constructs

This volume is based around 14 chapters and two critical analyses which provide new perspectives onimportant organizational constructs. The first half of the book provides chapters by advanced graduatestudents who are making their first contributions to understanding organizational behavior. The secondhalf of the book provides chapters illustrating new views of organizational constructs but from the perspectivesof more established researchers in the field. All chapters share a common theme of attemptingto provide new ways of viewing organizations and organizational behavior. Each chapter is based on thepremise that when presented with problems that seem impossible to solve often the best results areachieved by finding new perspectives on the basic constructs being studied. These new perspectives provideinsights which illuminate the problems for the theory of organizations as well as improving the abilityof organizational members to solve practical organizational problems.