Ideal Type Resources

The following books and articles provide more information on various ideal types:

Adizes, I. Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to do About It. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1988.

Etzioni, A. The Spirit of Community. New York: Crown. 1993.

Janis, Irving L. Victims of Groupthink (2nd edition). Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 1982.

Kimberly, J. R., & Miles, R. H. The Organizational Life Cycle: New Perspectives for Organizational Theory and Research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 1980.

McGregor, D. Leadership and Motivation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1966.

Miller, Danny. Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall. New York: Harper Business. 1990.

Ouchi, W. Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1982.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, & Salancik, G. R. The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective. New York: Harper & Row. 1978.

Tetlock, Philip E., Peterson, Randall S., McGuire, Charles, Chang, Shi-jie, & Feld, Peter. "Assessing Political Group Dynamics: A test of the Groupthink Model." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 63, 403-425. 1992.