Much organisational theory concentrates upon the formal structure of organisations.

It is the subject of academic study in fields including personal construct psychology, organisational theory and human-computer interaction.

Most of the introductory texts to organisational theory will have a chapter on the classical, systems and contingency approaches to organisations.

Also Etzioni's communitarian analysis uses a methodology which existed before the development of an organisational theory.

Most introductory textbooks on organisational theory will have chapters on the Human Relations approach to organisations.

In organisational theory Pfeffer (1981) argues that power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups.

Taking the approach of institutional and organisational theory, Cultural Institutions Studies also investigate processes occurring place within individual companies, as well as certain structural characteristics in cultural management.

The contributions to the magazine, authored mainly by McKinsey consultants, are in English and cover recent developments in management and organisational theory, including the public and non-profit sectors.

Recent developments in organisational theory, currently in vogue with many large corporations, suggest that hierarchical organisations are slow to respond to change, can limit the optimisation of staff potential and have high fixed costs.

SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including: Philosophy, Sociology, Social Psychology, Organisational Theory, Political Science.

This is because evaluation is not part of a unified theoretical framework, drawing on a number of disciplines, which include management and organisational theory, policy analysis, education, sociology, social anthropology, and social change.

In Simon Prideaux's "From Organisational Theory to the New Communitarium of Amitai Etzioni," he argues that Etzioni's communitarian methods are based upon earlier functionalist definitions of organisations.

Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement based on the organisational theories in the tradition of Dielo Truda's Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft).

This implies that, to deal with and appreciate adequately both collective and individual action, the discipline Cultural Institutions Studies must not only be concerned with aspects of organisational theory but also with questions of social practices, social psychology, occupational sociology, theories of socialisation, gender as well as epistemology.