Henry Mintzberg has been teaching, studying, and writing about organizations for more than a half century, which makes the title of his latest book, Understanding Organizations … Finally!, rather beguiling. Or perhaps not. Understanding Organizations, Mintzberg tells us from the start, is a revised and updated version of his first book, a 500-plus-page academic monograph titled The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of Research, published in 1979, which was later condensed into…

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