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The Legalistic Organization
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The Legalistic Organization

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March 1994 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings - managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book.
Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies
Introduction
Mark G Yudof
Preface
 
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT
W Richard Scott
Law and Organizations
Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies
The Legalization of Organizations
A Multi-Theoretical Perspective

 
 
PART TWO: LEGALISTIC PROCEDURES
John Van Maanen and Brian T Pentland
Cops and Auditors
The Rhetoric of Records

 
Michael J Smitka
Contracting Without Contracts
How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions

 
Martha S Feldman and Alan J Levy
Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity
 
PART THREE: LEGALISTIC CRITERIA IN DECISION MAKING
Nancy L Roth, Sim B Sitkin and Ann House
Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization
Donna M Randall and Douglas D Baker
The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making
Regulation of Reproductive Health in the Workplace

 
Mary J Culnan, H Jeff Smith and Robert J Bies
Law, Privacy, and Organizations
The Corporate Obsession to Know Versus the Individual Right Not to Be Known

 
Idalene F Kesner and Jeffrey B Kaufmann
The Changing Legal Environment
A Review and Recommendations for Today's Corporate Directors

 
 
PART FOUR: LEGALISTIC RHETORIC
Larry D Browning and Robert Folger
Communication Under Conditions of Litigation Risk
A Grounded Theory of Plausible Deniability in the Iran-Contra Affair

 
Randall K Stutman and Linda L Putnam
The Consequences of Language
A Metaphorical Look at the Legalization of Organizations

 
Debra L Shapiro and Deborah M Kolb
Reducing the Litigious Mentality by Increasing Employees' Desire to Communicate Grievances
 
PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGALISTIC ORGANIZATION
Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Costs of Legalization
The Hidden Dangers of Increasingly Formalized Control

 
Chris Argyris
Litigation Mentality and Organizational Learning

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