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Classical Organization Theory Socrates Discovers Generic Management Xenophon (1869) Of the Division of Labour Adam Smith (1776) SuperintendentÆs Report Daniel C. McCallum (1856) The Engineer as Economist Henry R. Towne (1886) General Principles of Management Henri Fayol (1916) The Principles of Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor (1916) Bureaucracy Max Weber (1922) Notes on the Theory of Organization Luther Gulick (1937) 2 Neoclassical Organization Theory The Economy of Incentives Chester I. Barnard (1938) Bureaucratic Structure and Personality Robert K. Merton (1957) The Proverbs of Administration Herbert A. Simon (1946) Foundations of the Theory of Organization Philip Selznick (1948) A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives Richard M. Cyert and James G. March (1959) 3 Human Resource Theory, or the Organizational Behavior Perspective The Giving of Orders Mary Parker Follett (1926) The Hawthorne Experiments Fritz J. Roethlisberger (1941) A Theory of Human Motivation Abraham H. Maslow (1943) The Human Side of Enterprise Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost Irving L. Janis (1971) 4 ôModernö Structural Organization Theory Mechanistic and Organic Systems Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker (1961) The Concept of Formal Organization Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott (1962) Organizational Choice: Product versus Function Arthur H. Walker and Jay W. Lorsch (1968) The Five Basic Parts of the Organization Henry Mintzberg (1979) Technology as a Contingency Factor Richard M. Burton and Børge Obel (1998) 5 Organizational Economics Theory Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1976) The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach Oliver E. Williamson (1981) Learning from Organizational Economics Jay B. Barney and William G. Ouchi (1986) Managing Business Transactions Paul H. Rubin (1990) 6 Power and Politics Organization Theo