Classics

A list of classic works at the intersection of organizational and urban studies. Suggestions?

• Blau, Peter M. 1972. The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Revised Edition (original version published in 1962). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Brodkin, Evelyn. 1986. The False Promise of Administrative Reform: Implementing Quality Control in Welfare. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Galaskiewicz, Joseph and Deborah Shatin. 1981. “Leadership and Networking among Neighborhood Human Service Organizations.” Administrative Science Quarterly. 26(3): 434-448.
• Hasenfeld, Yeheskel and Paul P.L. Cheung. 1985. “The Juvenile Court as a People-Processing Organization: A Political Economy Perspective.” The American Journal of Sociology. 90(4): 801-824.
• Laumann, Edward O., Joseph Galaskiewicz, and Peter V. Marsden. 1978. “Community Structure as Interorganizational Linkages.” Annual Review of Sociology. 4(455-484).
• Lipsky, Michael. 1980. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service Work. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Salamon, Lester. 1995. Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Smith, Steven Rathgeb and Michael Lipsky. 1993. Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Warren, Roland L. 1963. The Community in America. Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Zald, M. N. 1967. “Urban Differentiation, Characteristics of Boards of Directors, and Organizational Effectiveness.” American Journal of Sociology 73:261.