The organizational response to social problems

• Other Authors: Schutt, Russell K., Hartwell, Stephanie W.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; New York : JAI Press, 2001.
• Series: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 8.
• Subjects: Social problems > United States.; Organizational behavior > United States.; Community organization > United States.; Social theory.; Organizational theory & behaviour.; Political Science > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.; United States > Social conditions.

From the de-institutionalization of psychiatric hospitals to the privatization of prisons, the dramatic public policy changes of the last three decades have been, to a large extent, changes in organization. The chapters in this volume examine these organizational changes. We learn how organizations...