Organization

formal/legal group entity

Corporation, NGO, Government, etc.

many Organization Models

Cosma Shalizi on "Institutions and Organizations": Institutions keep society from falling apart, provided that there is something to keep institutions from falling apart. (Jon Elster, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, ch. 15)

• Recommended, big picture:
  • Kenneth Arrow: Social Choice and Individual Values; The Limits of Organization
  • James Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society*
• Recommended, close-ups:
  • F. G. Bailey, Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership
  • Roland Bénabou, "Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets" [PDF preprint. A really brilliant paper on "individually rational collective reality denial in groups, organizations and markets".
  • Samuel Bowles, "The coevolution of institutions and preferences: History and theory", SFI Working Paper 09-04-008 [PDF]
  • Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action", forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Political Economy [PDF preprint]