Reframing Organizations, 3rd Edition 

The third edition of  Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership was published in July, 2003.  For more information, click here to reach the publisher's website.

Support materials for instructors teaching with the book are available at Wiley's higher-education site.    Teaching materials for Reframing can also be found on this link.

Reframing is also available in several foreign-language versions.

From the preface, here's a brief summary of what's new in the 3rd edition:

          The four-frame model, with its view of organizations as factories, families, jungles and temples, remains the conceptual heart of the book.   But so much else has changed.  We have updated our case examples extensively to keep up with the latest developments in managerial practice.    We have added a new feature – a series we call “Greatest hits in organization studies.”  These sidebars represent pithy summaries of key ideas from the most influential works in the scholarly literature (as indicated by a new citation analysis.)   As a counterpoint to the scholarly works, we have also added occasional summaries of recent management best-sellers.

           Life in organizations has also produced new examples. The introductory chapters and our section on the structural frame both benefit from extensive updating of case material.  In our discussion of human resource management, we have added new material on diversity and updated other developments at the human resource frontier.  We have added new case material and research findings to our discussion of organizational politics and symbols. And we have deepened our discussion of organizational culture. 

 

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