Books by Jerald Hage
Meso-Level or Organizational Theory
• Aiken, M., & Hage, J.,(1970). Social change in complex organizations. Random House.
(Translated into Danish and Dutch).
• Hage, J., & Azumi, K. (1972). Organizational systems: A text reader in the sociology of
organization. D.C. Heath. (582 pages, with 90 pages of original text).
• Hage, J. (1974). Communication and organizational control: A cybernetics perspective in a
health and welfare setting. Wiley-Interscience.
• Aiken, M., & Hage, J. (1975). Coordinating human services. Jossey-Bass.
• Hage, J. (1980). Theories of organizations: Form, process, and transformation. Wiley-
Interscience.
• Hage, J., & Finsterbusch, K. (1987). Organizational change as a developmental strategy:
Theoretical possibilities and case studies. Lynne Rienner.
• Hage, J. (Ed.). (1988). The futures of organizations. D.C. Heath.
• Hage, J., & Alter, C. (1993). Organizations working together. Sage.
• Hage, J. (Ed.). (1998). Organizational innovation. Ashford Press Dartmouth Publishing.
• Hage, J., & Meeus, M. (Eds.). (2006). Innovation, science, and institutional change: A handbook
of research. Oxford University Press.
Societal Research and Policy Studies
• Hage, J., Hanneman, R., & Gargan, E. (1989). State responsiveness and state activism: An
examination of the social forces and state strategies that caused the rise in social expenditures in
Britain, France, Germany, and Italy (1870-1968). George Allen & Unwin.
• Hage, J., Hollingsworth, J. R., & Hanneman, R. (1990). State intervention in health care. Cornell
University Press.
• Hage, J. (2011). Restoring the innovative edge: Driving the evolution of science and technology.
Stanford University Press.
• Hage, J. (2020). Knowledge evolution and societal transformations: Action theory to solve
adaptive problems. Anthem Press.
• Hage, J., Valadez, J., & Hadden, W. (2024). Saving societies from within. Routledge Press.
Micro-Level Sociology
• Hage, J., & Powers, C. (1992). Post-industrial lives. Sage.
Sociological Theory
• Hage, J. (1972). Techniques and problems of theory construction in sociology. Wiley-
Interscience. (Translated into Japanese.)
• Hage, J., & Meeker, B. (1988). Social causality. George Allen & Unwin. (Republished in 2025.)
• Hage, J. (1994). Formal theory in sociology. SUNY Press.