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This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chester I. Barnard's remarkable and still influential book, The Functions of the Executive, was celebrated with a seminar series at the University of California, Berkeley in the Spring of 1988. Eight of those lectures are published here. The contributors include organization specialists and sociologists (Barbara Levitt and James March; W. Richard Scott; Glenn Carroll; Jeffrey Pfeffer), an anthropologist, a political scientist, and two economists (Mary Douglas; Terry Moe; Oliver Hart; Oliver Williamson). An important contribution to organization theory, this volume reports on recent progress in this field, and projects a productive research future.

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• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Chester I. Barnard and the Intelligence of Learning
• 2 Symbols and Organizations: From Barnard to the Institutionalists
• 3 On the Organizational Ecology of
• 4 Incentives in Organizations: The Importance of Social Relations
• 5 Converging on Autonomy: Anthropology and Institutional Economics
• 6 The Politics of Structural Choice: Toward a Theory of Public Bureaucracy
• 7 An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm
• 8 Chester Barnard and the Incipient Science of Organization
• 9 Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This is a pleasant little collection of essays generally organized around the theme of Chester I. Barnard's work as expressed in his book The Functions of the Executive (1938). The essays originated in papers presented at a seminar noting the 50th anniversary of his book. As is not uncommon with such collections, there is a lack of integration and continuity. The editor, with some success, has attempted to divide the eight essays into two blocks of articles: those by organizational theorists and those by individuals with other academic specialities. The selected participants are all individuals of note and reputation. As a result, each essay is of high quality, offering both introspective summary and creative projection. It is doubtful that one could find essays more extensively referenced. This book will appeal mainly to specialists in organizational theory or those specifically interested in Barnard. University collections. -E. Owens, Western Washington University