In der Management Revue (4/2009) ist ein Schwerpunktheft zum Thema „Macht in Organisationen – Macht von Organsiationen“ erschienen.
Special Issue: Power in Organizations – Power of Organizations Herausgegeben von Axel Haunschild, Werner Nienhueser und Richard Weiskopf
Inhalte
- Axel Haunschild/Werner Nienhueser/ Richard Weiskopf: Editorial: Power in Organizations – Power of Organizations (download als PDF)
- Stewart Clegg: Bureaucracy, the Holocaust and Techniques of Power at Work
- Claudia Groß/Nicole Jung: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on ‚Enterprise‘: Control and Autonomy in a Direct Selling Organization
- Christoph Dörrenbächer/Mike Geppert: Micro-political Games in the Multinational Corporation: The Case of Mandate Change
- Elaine Farndale/Veronica Hope-Hailey: Personnel Departmental Power: Realities from the UK Higher Education Sector
- Thomas Diefenbach/Rune Todnem By/Patricia Klarner: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Managers‘ Power – Functional, Socio-political, Interpretive-discursive, and Socio-cultural Approaches

„This article evaluates to what extent Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) is able to explain organizational processes and structures. The evaluation criteria are the empirical corroboration of the theory, its information content and generality, but also how realistic the assumptions of the RDT are. The evaluation shows that the theory is empirically well confirmed. On the whole, Resource Dependence Theory significantly contributes to explaining behavior, structure, stability, and change of organizations.“ (Abstract)