Books by James D. Thompson

Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult

This work is a multidisciplinary study of the behaviour of complex organizations as entities. It considers individual behaviour only to the extent that it helps explain the nature of organizations. The test offers propositions about the behaviour of organizations.