Answer to Question #190053 in Management for Morafi

Question

Critically discuss the contribution of these scholars towards the development of organisation theories. • W. Richard Scott(1987) • Karl Marx(1818-83) • Emile Durkheim(1858-1917) • Marx Weber(1864-1920) • Gareth Morgan (1997) 

Answer 1

1. According to Scott (2014) , institutional theory is linked to three pillars, which include cultural-cognitive, normative, and regulative structures.

2. Like the other classical economists, Karl Marx believed in the labor theory of value to explain relative differences in market prices. This theory stated that the value of a produced economic good can be measured objectively by the average number of labor hours required to produce it.

3. Emile Durkheim developed theories of social structure that included functionalism, the division of labor, and anomie. These theories were founded on the concept of social facts, or societal norms, values, and structures. Anomie is the state in which there is a breakdown of social norms and guidance.

4. Max Weber was a German sociologist who argued bureaucracy was the most efficient and rational model private businesses and public offices could operate in. ... His theory of management, also called the bureaucratic theory, stressed strict rules and a firm distribution of power.

5. 1989). “Images of Organization: An Essay Review”, Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. ... In Morgan's work, organizations are metaphorically imagined in different ways such as machines, brains, organisms, cultures, psychic prisons, systems of politics, transformation, and tools of domination.