本課程主要用意在於讓學生對傳統與現代的組織社會學理論做回顧與批判，並探討組織理論發展的新方向。屬於本課程討論範疇的傳統組織理論有韋伯與科層制度 (Weber and Bureaucracy), 科學管理學派（the Scientific Management School），人群關係學派（the Human Relations School），及結構權變學派（the Structural Contingency School）等。現代組織理論則包括資源依賴理論（Resource Dependence Theory) 、網絡理論（Network Theory），組織經濟學（Economics of Organization），組織生態學（Organizational Ecology），及新制度理論（New Institutionalism）等。

1.導論

2.傳統組織理論

Scott, W. Richard and Gerald F. Davis. 2007. Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives. 1st edition Prentice-Hall.
Ch.2-5

3.現代組織理論

(1) Resource Dependence Theory

Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Gerald Salancik. 1978. The External Control of Organizations. Harper and Row. Read Chapter 1.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. 1988. “ A Resource Dependence Perspective on Intercorporate Relations.” Pp. 25-55 in Intercorporate Relations, M. Mizruchi and M. Schwartz. Ed. Cambridge.

﹡Casciaro, Tiziana and Milolaj Piskorski. 2005. “Power Imbalance, Mutual Dependence, and Constraint Absorption: A Closer Look at Resource Dependence Theory.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 50 (2): 167-199.

﹡Mizruchi, Mark S. 1989. “Similarity of Political Behavior among Large American Corporations.” American Journal of Sociology, 95: 401-24.

﹡陳東升，2003，“高科技產業組織間關係的權力分析──以台灣積體電路產業的設計公司為例”，pp.57-104. 收於＜積體網路：台灣高科技產業的社會學分析＞，台北：群學。

(2) Network Analysis

張苙雲、譚康榮，1999，「形構產業網絡」，頁17-64，《網絡台灣：企業的人情關係與經濟理性》（張苙雲編）。台北：遠流。

Powell, Walter. 1990. “Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization.” Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 12, B. Staw and L. L. Cummings, ed. JAI.

Granovetter, Mark 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of
Embeddedness," American Journal of Sociology 91:481-510.

﹡Uzzi, Brian. 1996. “The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect.” American Sociological Review, 61(4): 674-698.

﹡陳東升，1999，「高科技產業組織網絡統理架構的內涵極其演變的探討：以台灣積體電路產業封裝部門為例」，《中山管理評論》，7（2）：283-324.

(3) The Economics of Organization

Transaction Cost and Agency Theory

Williamson, Oliver. 1981. “The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach.” American Journal of Sociology, 87: 548-577.

Peterson, Trond. 1993. “The Economics of Organization: The Principal-Agent Relationship.” Acta Sociologica 36: 277-293.

Ouchi, William. 1980. “Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans.” Administrative Science Quarterly 25: 129-140.

﹡Gomez-Mejia, Luis R. and David B. Balkin. 1992. “Determinants of Faculty Pay: An Agency Theory Perspective,” Academy of Management Journal 35(5): 921-955.

﹡Masters, John K. and Grant Miles. 2002. “Predicting the Use of External Labor Arrangements: A test of the Transaction Costs Perspectives.” Academy of Management Journal 45(2): 431-442.


New Institutionalism

Meyer, John and Brian Rowan. 1977. “Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony.” American Journal of Sociology 83 : 340-63.

DiMaggio, Paul and Walter Powell. 1983. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.” American Sociological Review 48:147-60.

Oliver, Christine. 1991. “Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes.” Academy of Management Review 16:145-179.

﹡Tolbert, Pamela and Lynne Zucker. 1983. “Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935.” Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 22-39.

﹡柯志哲、許建彬，2008，「企業因應勞退新制策略之探討：整合資源依賴理論及新制度論的分析」，台灣社會學，第十六期: 49-95。

Organizational Ecology

Hannan, Michael and John Freeman, 1989. Organizational Ecology. Chapter 1.

Hannan, Michael T. 2005. “Ecologies of Organizations: Diversity and Identity.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (1): 51-70.

﹡Haveman, Heather A. 1993. “Follow the leader: Mimetic isomorphism and entry into new markets.” Administrative Science Quarterly 38: 593-627.

﹡Baron, James N., Michael T. Hannan, and M. Diane Burton. 2001. “Labor Pains: Organizational Change and Employee Turnover in Young, High-Tech Firms.” American Journal of Sociology 106:960-1012.

New Directions for Organization Theory

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, 1997. New Directions for Organization Theory. Oxford University Press.

Ch. 1 The Development and Scope of Organization Studies
Ch. 9 New Directions for Organization Theory

Scott, W. Richard and Gerald F. Davis. 2007. Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives. 1st edition Prentice-Hall.

Ch. 13. The Rise and Transformation of the Corporate Form
Ch. 14. Changing Contours of Organizations and Organization Theory

Scott, W. Richard. 2004. “Reflections on a Half-Century of Organizational Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology, 30: 1-21.