In it, the authors put forth an approach to the study of organizations and other less formalized systems of action, detailing the theoretical and methodological assumptions that lie behind it. The way in which organizations and systems function is conceptualized by them as originating from game structures that channel and stabilize power and bargaining relations between a set of strategically interdependent actors. Professor Crozier never considered sociology and sociological theorizing as an end in itself. He never separated his sociological work from his commitment to administrative and social reform, in the service of which he published seven books and engaged in numerous consultancies and interventions. He published his autobiography in two volumes, Ma Belle Epoque (2002), and A Contre-Courant (2004). Honours Officer of the Legion of Honour Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite Select bibliography Michel Crozier is the author of over 20 books and 80 articles mostly written in French. This is a selection of some of his works: BOOKS Crozier, Michel (2010) The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (with a new introduction by Erhard Friedberg) (New Brunswick and London: Transactions Publishers, 2010). (Originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964) Crozier, Michel. L'entreprise à l'écoute : apprendre le management post-industriel (translated in Italian and Spanish) (Paris: Interéditions, 1987). Crozier, Michel. The Trouble with America: Why the Social System Is Breaking Down (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984). Crozier, Michel. Strategies for Change (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982). Crozier, Michel & Friedberg, Erhard. Actors and Systems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies, New York University Press, 1975. Crozier, Michel. The World of the Office-Worker. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965). ARTICLES "Organization and Collective Action. Our Contribution to Organizational Analysis" (with Erhard Friedberg) in S.B. Bacharach, P., Gagliardi & P. Mundell (Eds). Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Vol. XIII, Special Issue on European Perspectives of Organizational Theory, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995) Greenwich, CT: Traduction italienne :Il Pensiero Organizzativo Europeo, Edizioni angelo Guerini e Associati, 1997. "The Boundaries of Business: the Changing Organization" in Harvard Business Review, July 1991, pp. 138–140. "The relational Boundaries of Rationality" in: K.R. Monroe (Ed.), The Economic Approach to Politics: A Critical Reassessment of the Theory of Rational Action (New York, HarperCollins, 1991), pp. 306–316. "Organizations as Means and Constraints of Collective Action," in: Warner, M. (éd.).