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A theory that sees organizations as objective historical outcomes of practical collective activity, especially activity organized around the production of material life and the production of social life.
Introduction
Compared to other classical organizational theories – scientific and administrative management – Marxian theory of organizations presents a rather unfamiliar view of organizations since Marx himself provided little in terms of a theoretical analysis of organizations. As a result, Marxist ideas have been interpreted and appropriated in a number of different ways leading to a number of competing schools of Marxism on organizational forms. Among the competing schools are structural, humanist, determinist, political, economistic, and autonomist. Underlying these different schools are several common categories and propositions that...
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Aideyan, O.A. (2017). Marxist Theory of Organizations. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_59-1
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