Theory of control in organizations and other organizational studies

The paper analyzes the place of theory of control in organizations (historically originating from the theory of active systems and being an extension of the latter) within a system of contemporary management and organizational studies. A unified system of classifications is defined to compare different fields of organization studies, briefly list and classify modern schools and theories that investigate various problems of management and organizational control, compare the theory of control in organizations with other theories in terms of the chosen system of classifications.