I need information on theorists and research done on the following:

business organisational philosophy 
decision making processes within corporations 
political frameworks within corporations (centralised, de-centralised
etc)

any white papers, useful reports etc....would be fantastic.

Please don't write too much! I just need *lots* of useful links I can
critically evaluate.

Many Thanks!!!

P.S. I need this asap, we're talking like a couple of hours, well
maybe not that bad. I'll give it around six.

This is a very comprehensive business theory site - you shouldn't need
to look much further.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2727

I also posted selected references based on your topic areas of
interest below:

Business Organization Theory

Thorsten Veblen, The Theory of Business Enterprise (McMaster U.) 
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/busent/index.html

Formal Organizations (synopses of theoretical works in the field)
(Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/ssr1/PRELIMS/orgs.html

EJROT: Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (U. Waikato,
New Zealand)
http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/sm&l/journal/ejrot.htm

Comprehensive Reference List on Organisational Learning and Related
Literatures (with special focus on Team Learning) (Murat H. Polat, U.
Wollongong, Australia)
http://engineering.uow.edu.au/Engineering/Resources/Murat/olref.html

A Case For Knowledge Management 
Rethinking Management for the New World of Uncertainty and Risk 
Author: Yogesh Malhotra, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Founding Chairman & Chief Knowledge Architect, BRINT Institute 
http://www.kmbook.com/

The Horizontal Corporation: Flattening the Organization
Program/Project Management Resource List #42
Revised September 1994 
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm42.htm

"The Faces of Business Are Changing" (Executive Issues, Wharton
School, U. Penn.)
http://matrix.wharton.upenn.edu/execed/eepubs/ei_95sum/story1.html

Title: Knowing the Risks; theory and practice in financial markets.
Human Relations, in press.
Author(s) / Editor(s): Willman P W,Fenton-O'Creevy M,Nicholson N,Soane
E
click here for a full biography of   Nicholson N, Soane E 
Associated Subject Areas: Organisational Behaviour
Year of Publication: 2001
http://forum.london.edu/lbsfacpubs.nsf/(httppublications)/E640C91A4D31DF4480256A94003BE2DA

Kenneth Labich with Joyce E. Davis, "Making Diversity Pay" (1996)
(Fortune / John McNeill)
http://jmcneil.sba.muohio.edu/classes/Fortune/MakingDiversityPay.html

Melissa Lauber, "Diversity in Workforce Produces Bottom Line Benefits"
(Village Life)
http://www.villagelife.org/news/archives/diversity.html

Pamela Schaeffer, "Employers Find Diversity Programs Must be 'Lived' "
(Village Life)
http://www.villagelife.org/news/archives/CS_gettingalong/div_programs.html
Decision Making Business Theory

Journal of Management History: Issue on Taylorism (MCB University
Press)
http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/contents/liblink/webpages/h158001002.html#abs5405

http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Management.html#HRM
SocioSite: Human Resource Management Resources (Albert Benschop, U.
Amsterdam)
Politics/ Ideology and Business 

Politics/ Ideology and Business

Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) ("multi-disciplinary research
on the current transformation of industrial societies and of the
global economic and political order") (Sheffield U., UK)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/perc/

The Power Button
http://www.identitytheory.com/business/

Title: Trust in organisational authorities and formulation of
identity: a case study of Polish managers in a multinational
corporation
Author(s) / Editor(s): Zaleska K J
lick here for a full biography of   Zaleska K J 
Associated Subject Areas: Organisational Behaviour
Year of Publication: 2000
http://forum.london.edu/lbsfacpubs.nsf/(httppublications)/28721B67759E129F80256A24003DF6CE

Title: Knowing the Risks; theory and practice in financial markets.
Human Relations, in press.
Author(s) / Editor(s): Willman P W,Fenton-O'Creevy M,Nicholson N,Soane
E
click here for a full biography of   Nicholson N, Soane E 
Associated Subject Areas: Organisational Behaviour
Year of Publication: 2001
http://forum.london.edu/lbsfacpubs.nsf/(httppublications)/E640C91A4D31DF4480256A94003BE2DA

Business & Globalism / Multinationalism  
Nancy J. Adler, (McGill U.), "Globalization and Human Resources
Management"

I hope this helps.
-Anthony

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Clarification of Answer by adiloren-ga on 14 May 2002 15:53 PDT

sorry - i forgot to include the search terms:
Google
"business theory" OR "theory of business"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22business+theory%22+OR+%22theory+of+business%22

-Sorry about that.
Good luck,
Anthony

Absolutely fantastic--a lifesaver. Interpreted my poorly defined
question with expert understanding.

The information provided was *all* relevant, and presented in an ideal
format.

I bestow much praise upon you!

hail adiloren!

Google's own Directory would be a good place to start since there is a
wealth of material there.  Numerous links can be found at:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Management/Organizational_Development/?tc=1

http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Management/Management_Science/?tc=1/

Business decision theory:

THEORISTS
Some organizational decision theorists include the following. You can
do a search for their names for articles and books.

John Kay (http://www.johnkay.com/)
Herbert Alexander Simon (was at Carnegie Mellon University) (
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/simon.htm )
( Herb’s Nobel Prize e-museum bio ( 
http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1978/simon-autobio.html  ))
Lee Roy Beach ( http://w3.arizona.edu/~mapol/graphic/faculty/beach.htm
)
Arthur L. Stinchcombe ( 
http://www.nwu.edu/sociology/faculty/stinch.html )
Daniel Kahneman ( http://www.princeton.edu/~psych/PsychSite/fac_kahneman.html
)
Amos Tversky 
Max Bazerman, Northwestern University (
http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/bio/bazerman.htm )
( http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman )
Joel Brockner, Columbia University ( 
http://www3.gsb.columbia.edu/whoswho/ww_Detail.cfm?ID=106 )
Colin Camerer, CalTech (
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/InfoPages/Faculty/CamererColinF.html )
John S. Carroll, MIT 
Robert Gibbons, MIT Sloan School of Management
(http://www.nber.org/vitae/vita217.htm )
Jennifer J. Halpern, Ithaca, New York 
David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon University ( 
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/researchers/faculty/krack.html )
Alfred Marcus, University of Minnesota 
Judi McLean Parks, Washington University 
Zur Shapira, New York University ( http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~zshapira/
)
John Sterman, MIT ( http://necsi.org/faculty/management/sterman.html )
Robert N. Stern, (was Cornell University )
Leigh Thompson, Northwestern University ( 
http://www.leighthompson.com/ )
Kathleen Valley, Harvard Business School  ( 
http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=kvalley )
Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University (
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~bwiesenf/ )
Oliver Williamson, University of California, Berkeley ( 
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/bpp/faculty/williamson/profile.htm
 )
Robin M. Hogarth: ( http://www.econ.upf.es/cgi-bin/whois?02047 )
Wesley Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University  (
http://hss.cmu.edu/departments/sds/faculty/cohen.html )
Baruch Fischhoff (  http://hss.cmu.edu/departments/sds/faculty/fischhoff.html)

I interpreted your "political frameworks within corporations" to mean
organizational cultures and power structures. Theorists include
Chester Barnard, Charles Handy, Edward T Hall, and Geert Hofstede.
Check out this site for overviews of their theories and research:

People Whose Ideas Influence Organisational Work (Organizational
Culture)
http://www.onepine.demon.co.uk/phand.htm

ORGANIZATIONS

Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World 
http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/areas.html
( see Economic and Game Theory, Financial Economics, Risk and
Insurance, Forecasting, Business Cycles, Monetary Economics )

University of Chicago business school - Managerial and Organizational
Behavior
http://gsb.uchicago.edu/dynamic.asp?nNodeID=200

Columbia University's Center for the Decision Sciences
(with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy)
http://www.cebiz.org/cds/about.htm

Institute for Strategic Clarity
http://www.instituteforstrategicclarity.org/offering.htm

Center for Energy and Environmental Research
http://www.altarum.org/CEER/CEERhome.asp

American Statistical Association section on Risk Analysis
http://www.amstat.org/sections/srisk/ras.html

Society for Risk Analysis/SRA
http://www.sra.org/

ARTICLES
War, Chaos and Business - Modern Business Strategy 
http://www.belisarius.com/
"articles and presentations on agility and time-based competition with
a focus on their  application to business strategy."

Working Paper Abstract Archive
Decision Analysis Society (University of Texas Business School)
http://www.bus.utexas.edu/Faculty/Jim.Dyer/DA_WP/

Organizational process models of decision-making 
A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson
http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/index.html?http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/organizational_process.html

Information as an Organizational Asset (Technology for Nonprofits) -
Diane G. Remin and Marc Osten
http://www.techsoup.org/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=349&topicid=11

Administrative Decision Making in Information Organizations -
University of Toronto
http://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/FIS/Courses/LIS2149/LIS2149.Slides.html

Game Theory - Michael Carter, University of Canterbury Economics
Department
http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/mike2.htm

Choice Structures, Business Stragety and Performance: A Generalized
NK-Simulation Approach - Ghemawat and Levinthal
http://jonescenter.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/2000/wp00-05.pdf

Technology Strategy: Decision Making for Nonprofit Boards
http://www.cyberspeaker.com/NPOtechnology.html

Case Study: Strategic Business Decision Making 
http://www.sportseconomics.com/services/CS_Strategic_Bus_Dec.html

National Defense University  - Information Technology and Strategic
Decision Making
http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/publications/Corporate%20Univ.htm

OTHER SOURCES 
Informs - Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences
http://www.informs.org/

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 
http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/ob/obifa.htm


business.com (links)
 http://www.business.com/directory/management/strategic_planning/ 

Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning,and Learning
Organizations portal
http://www.brint.com/OrgLrng.htm

i would visit org theory speicalist professors at any grad school in the USA.  

[i am an adjunct prof and I see end benefit to your research, good luck!]