KAM 3 Bibliography

Below you will find an alphabetical list of suggested books for use in the Breadth section of KAM 3. You are not limited to the books listed here, if you need any help searching for alternatives please contact your professor and/or the Walden Library.
 

Ackoff, R. L., & Johnson, L. (1997). From mechanistic to social systemic thinking: A digest of a talk by Russell Ackoff. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications Publishers.
 

Adjibolosoo, E. (2005). The human factor in leadership effectiveness. Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing, LLC.
 

Ahrne, G. (1994). Social organizations: Interaction inside, outside, and between organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Aldrich, H. (1979). Organizations and environments. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
 

Anderson, E. N. (1996). Ecologies of the heart: Emotion, belief, and the environment. New York: Oxford University Press.
 

Anderson, H. (1997). Conversation, language, and possibilities: A postmodern approach to therapy. New York: Basic Books.
 

Anderson, R. E., Carter, I. E., & Lowe, G. (1999). Human behavior in the social environment: Asocial systems approach. (5th ed.). New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
 

Anderson, E.T., & McFarlane, J. (2000). Community as partner. (3rd ed.).Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
 

Auger, J.R. (1976). Behavioral systems and nursing. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
 

Bailey, K. D. (1994). Sociology and the new systems theory: Toward a theoretical synthesis. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
 

Bales, R. F. (1999). Social interaction systems: Theory and measurement. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
 

Bandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory. New York: General Learning Press.
 

Bates, F. L., (1997). Sociopolitical ecology: Human systems and ecological fields. New York: Plenum Press.
 

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of the mind. New York: Ballentine.
 

Berger, P. & Luckmann, T. (1966) The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge. New York: Doubleday.
 

Bertalanffy, L. (1968/1972). General system theory: Foundations, development, applications. London: Allen Lane.
 

Bertalanffy, L. (1975). Perspectives on general system theory: Scientific-philosophical studies. New York: G. Braziller.
 

Bond, S., & Bond, J. (1995). Sociology and health care: An introduction for nurses and other health care professionals. St Louis: Elsevier.
 

Boris, E. T., & Steuerle, C. E. (Eds.), (1998). Nonprofits and government: Collaboration and conflict. Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.Boulding, K. (1985) The world as a total system. Sage Publications, Beverly Hill, CA.
 

Bremner, R.H. (1996). Giving: Charity and philanthropy in history. New York: Transaction Publishers.
 

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1996). The state of Americans: This generation and the next. New York: Free Press.
 

Bryant, J. (1991). Systems theory and scientific philosophy: An application of the cybernetics of W. Ross Ashby to personal and social philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and the problems of artificial intelligence. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
 

Buckley, W. F. (1967). Sociology and modern systems theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
 

Burrel, G. & Morgan, G. (1980). Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. London: Heonrmann.
 

Calas, M. B. & Smircich, L. (1997). Postmodern management theory. Brookfield, VE: Ashgate Publishing.
 

Capra, F. (1996). The web of life: A new scientific understanding of living systems. New York: Anchor Books.
 

Colomy, P. B. (1992). The dynamics of social systems. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Dalton, J.H., Elias, M.J., & Wandersman, A. (2000). Community psychology: Linking Individuals and communities. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
 

Davidson, P. (1984). Uncommon sense: The life and thought of Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972), father of general systems theory. Los Angeles: J.P.Tarcher.
 

Eldredge, N., & Grene, M. G. (1992). Interactions: The biological context of social systems. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
 

Elliott, A. (1999). The Blackwell reader in contemporary social theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
 

Ellis, R. K., Gregory, A., & Mears-Young, B. (Eds.) (1995). Critical issues in systems theory and practice. New York: Plenum Press.
 

Etzioni, A. (1964). Modern organizations. Engelwood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Etzioni, A. (1975). A comparative analysis of complex organizations: On power, involvement, and their correlates. (Rev. and enl. ed.). New York: Free Press.
 

Feldman, D. H., Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Gardner, H. (1994). Changing the world: A framework for the study of creativity. Westport, CT: Praeger.
 

Ford, D. H., & Lerner, R. M. (1992). Developmental systems theory: An integrative approach. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Fountain, J.E. (2001). Building the virtual state: Informational technology and institutional change. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
 

Franklin, S. Lury, C., & Stacey, J. (2000). Global nature, global culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Friedemann, M.L. (1995). The framework of systemic organization. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Appleton & Lange.
 

Friedkin, N. E. (1998). A structural theory of social influence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

Garbarino, J. (1992). Children and families in the social environment. (2nd ed.). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
 

Gardner, H. (1999). Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st century. New York: Basic Books.
 

Getzels, J. L. & Guba, E. G. (1957). Social behavior and the administrative process. School Review, 65, 423-441.
 

Getzels, J. L., Lipham, J. M., & Campbell, R. E. (1968). Educational Administration as a social process: Theory, research and practice. New York: Harper & Row.
 

Gibson, J. L., Ivancevich, J. M. & Donnelly, J. H. (1976). Organizations: Behavior, structure and process. (Rev. ed.) Dallas, TX: Business Publications.
 

Ginter, P.M. (2002). Strategic management of healthcare organizations. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
 

Greenberg, J., & Baron, R. A. (1997). Behaviors in organizations. (6th ed.). Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Gross, E., & Etzioni, A. (1985). Organizations in society. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Hall, R. H. (2002). Organizations: Structures, processes, and outcomes. (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Hall, T. D. (Ed.) (2000). A world-systems reader: New perspectives on gender, urbanism, cultures, indigenous peoples, & ecology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
 

Hanson, B. G. (1995). General systems theory beginning with wholes: An introduction to general systems theory. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis Publishers.
 

Harrison, N. E. (2000). Constructing sustainable development. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
 

Hatch, M. J. (1997). Organizational theory: Modern symbolic and postmodern perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 

Hoy, W. & Miskel, C. (2005) Educational administration: Theory, research and practice. (7th ed). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
 

Jacobs, C., & Placko, M. (1995). Change management and the momentum of open systems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
 

Jervis, R. (1997). System effects: Complexity in political and social life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
 

Johnson, N. E., & Wang, C. L. (Eds.) (1997). Changing rural social systems: Adaptation and survival. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.
 

Kardulias, P. N. (Ed.) (1999). World-systems theory in practice: Leadership, production, and exchange. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
 

Katz, D., & Kahn, R. L. (1978). The social psychology of organizations. (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley.
 

Kelso, J.A.S. (1995). Dynamic patterns: The self-organization of brain and behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 

King, I.M. (1981). A theory of goal attainment: Systems, concepts, processes. New York: Wiley.
 

Klüver, J. (2000). The dynamics and evolution of social systems: New foundations of a mathematical sociology. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
 

Kuhn, A. (1974). The logic of social systems: A unified, deductive, system-based approach to social science. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
 

Lamont, M., & Fournier, M. (Eds.) (1992). Cultivating differences: Symbolic boundaries and the making of inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 

Laszlo, E. (1972). The systems view of the world: A holistic vision for our time. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
 

Laszlo, E. (1972). The systems view of the world: The natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences. New York: Braziller.
 

Lawrence, P. R., & Lorsch, J. W. (1986). Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration. (Rev. ed.). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
 

Leavitt, H. J., Dill, W. R. & Eyring, H. B. (1973). The organizational world. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
 

Lilienfeld, R. (1978/1988). The rise of systems theory: An ideological analysis. Malabar, FL: R.E. Krieger.
 

Luhmann, N. (1995). Social systems. (John Bednarz, Trans.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (Original work published 1984)
 

Marsden, T., Lowe, P., & Whatmore, S. (Eds.) (1990). Rural restructuring: Global processes and their responses. London: David Fulton Publishers.
 

Maxey, S. J. (1995). Democracy, chaos, and new school order. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
 

Mellor, M. (1997). Feminism and ecology. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press.
 

Mesarovic, M. D., & Takahara, Y. (1989). Abstract systems theory. New York: Springer Verlag Publishers.
 

Miller, J. G. (1978/1995). Living systems. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado; New York: McGraw Hill.
 

Miner, J. B. (2002). Organizational behavior: Foundations, theories and analyses. New York: Oxford University Press.
 

Mintzberg, H. (1979). The structuring of organizations. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Moen, P., Elder, G. H., & Lüscher, K. (Eds.). (1995). Examining lives in context: Perspectives on the ecology of human development. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
 

Morgan, G. (1997). Images of organizations. (Rev. ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.
 

Neuman, B. (1995). The Neuman systems model. (3rd ed.). Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange.
 

Norlin, J. M., & Chess, W. A. (1997). Human behavior and the social environment: Social systems theory. (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
 

Olds, P. (1992). Metaphors of interrelatedness: Toward a systems theory of psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press.
 

Oshry, B. (1995/1996). Seeing systems: Unlocking the mysteries of organizational life. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
 

Oyama, S. (2000). Evolution’s eye: A systems view of the biology-culture divide. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
 

Parse, R.R. (2003). Community: A human becoming perspective. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
 

Pearson, A., & Vaughan, B. (1986). Nursing models for practice. London: William Heinemann Medical Books.
 

Perrow, C. (1986). Complex organizations: A critical essay. (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
 

Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G. R. (1978). The external control of organizations: A resource dependence perspective. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
 

Purnell, L.D., & Paulanka, B.J. (1998). Transcultural health care: A culturally competent approach. Philadelphia: F.A. David.
 

Rasch, W., & Wolfe, C. (Eds.) (2000). Observing complexity: Systems theory and postmodernity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
 

Richardson, G. P. (1991). Feedback thought in social science and systems theory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
 

Richmond, B., Peterson, S., & Charyk, C. (1992). Introduction to systems thinking and Ithink. Hanover, NH: High Performance Systems, Inc.
 

Riehl-Sisca, J.P. (Ed.).(1989). Conceptual models for nursing practice. Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange.
 

Riley, M. W., Kahn, R. B., & Foner, A. (Eds.). (1994). Age and structural lag: Society’s failure to provide meaningful opportunities in work, family, and leisure. New York: J. Wiley.
 

Rosenblatt, P. C. (1994). Metaphors of family systems theory: Toward new constructions. New York: Guilford Press.
 

Schermerhorn, J. R., Hunt, J. G., & Osborn, R. N. (1994). Managing organizational behavior. New York: Wiley.
 

Schriver, J. M. (1995). Human behavior and the social environment: Shifting paradigms in essential knowledge for social work practice. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
 

Scott, W. R. (1992). Organizations: Rational, natural, and open systems. (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Scott, W. R. (2003). Organizations: Rational, natural, and open systems. (5th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday Publishers.
 

Senge, P., & Kliener, A. (Eds.). (1999). The dance of change: Mastering the twelve challenges to change in a learning organization. New York, NY: Doubleday.
 

Skyttner, L. (1996/2000). General systems theory: Ideas and applications. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishers.
 

Smith, G. (Ed.). (1999). Goffman and social organization: Studies in a sociological legacy. New York: Routledge.
 

Snow, N. E. (Ed.). (1996). In the company of others: Perspectives on community, family, and culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
 

Shea, T. M., & Bauer, A. M. (1997). An introduction to special education: A social systems perspective. (2nd ed.). Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark.
 

Swanson, C. R., Territo, L., & Taylor, R. W. (2005). Police administration: Structures, processes and behavior. (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
 

Taylor, F. W. (1947) Scientific management. New York: Harper.
 

Tompkins, J. R. (2005). Organization theory and public management. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
 

Townsend, P., & Davidson, N. (1982). Inequalities in Health. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
 

Vaughan, R. J., & Buss, T. F. (1998). Communicating social science research to policymakers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Wallace, W. L. (1994). A Weberian theory of human society: Structure and evolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
 

Walsh, W. M., & Williams, G. R. (Eds.) (1997). Schools and family therapy: Using systems theory and family therapy in the resolution of school problems. Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas Publishers.
 

Wasserman, S., & Galaskiewicz, J. (Eds.) (1994). Advances in social network analysis: Research in the social and behavioral sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
 

Weber, M. (1947). The theory of social and economic organizations. In T. Parsons (ed.), A.M. Henderson and T. Parsons (trans.) New York: Free Press.
 

Weick, K. E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing. (2nd ed.) Reading: MA: Addison-Wesley Publishers.
 

Weissman, D. (2000). A social ontology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
 

Wheatley, M. J. (2001). Leadership and the new science revised: Discovering order in a chaotic world. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
 

Wilkinson, R. (1996). Unhealthy societies: The afflictions of inequality. London: Routledge.
 

Zohar, D. (1997). Rewiring the corporate brain: Using new science to rethink how we structure and lead organizations. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler.

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