"This much-needed book provides an expansive overview of organizations from their historical origins to the modern digital age. Haveman's fresh take on the literature, organized around demographic, relational, and cultural perspectives, offers an accessible and concise framework to understand organizational scholarship. The book is an essential primer and compulsory read for emerging scholars in the field. It directs our attention to the importance of organizations in addressing critical problems in society and offers insightful future directions for the field." --Christine M. Beckman, University of Southern California "Organization theory is a sprawling field with fuzzy boundaries. Haveman's The Power of Organizations is remarkable not only in categorizing the fruits of previous research using demographic, relational, and cultural perspectives on organizations, but also in planting the seeds of ideas for much-needed research on the impact of organizations on society." --Anand Swaminathan, Goizueta Business School, Emory University " The Power of Organizations is comprehensive in terms of covering the views on organizations over the past few decades.

Haveman stays true to each perspective's original arguments, more so than any other overview I've encountered." --Olav Sorenson, University of California, Los Angeles "Haveman is a major figure in the field of organizations, and The Power of Organizations will prove valuable for both students and researchers. The author demonstrates a staggering level of knowledge, and this impressive book offers outstanding coverage of an extremely broad literature, in a compelling and accessible form." --Mark Mizruchi, author of The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite.