Jeffrey Pfeffer is Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He is the author of six books, 90 articles and book chapters and has won numerous academic awards and honors for his research.

• The Development and Scope of Organization Studies ; Understanding the Causes of Behaviour ; Five Models of Behaviour ; The Effects of Organizational Composition ; Mechanisms of Social Control ; Developing and Exercising Power and Influence ; Organizational Performance ; Organizations from a Critical Theory Perpective ; New Directions for Organization Theory

Jeffrey Pfeffer's book is a real contribution to the field. It is a masterful blend of rigorous literature review and synthesis along with provocative ideas and challenges for scholars of organizations. Pfeffer manages to not only span multiple literatures and levels of analysis, but he also steps back to inject his own critical opinions on where the field of organizations has been and, even more importantly, directions in which it should proceed. This book deserves to be required reading for any individual seriously interested in understanding how and why organizations work the way they do.