This edited original collection addresses the nature and functions of modern organizations at both the macro and micro levels. With theoretical, empirical, and analytical essays by leading scholars of organization and administrative theory, the volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in manayement, public ndministration, and organizational behavior. Grouped into four sections, the work's chapters explore society and the modern organization, public organization design and the reorganization of governance, the administrative state and public administration, and critical perspectives on the relationship between organization, individual, and administration.