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Offering a solid grounding in the historical and contemporary concerns of the field, Central Currents in Organization Studies I Volumes 1-4 presents an innovative and thematically coherent selection of seminal articles. This four-volume set provides an essential benchmark reference to any library concerned with the field of organization studies. Presenting the most influential and provocative contributions to the field, this major work reviews the development of organization studies, including both mainstream and more innovative topics, leading through to recent debates on the status of organizations. In addition to over 70 key original articles included in the collection, the set opens with an introductory editorial essay by Stewart Clegg setting out the rationale behind the selections, and providing an illuminating discussion of the development of organization studies and its theoretical foundations. Every discipline has the tradition of recording the central genealogical line of its development with work that comprises the great, the provocative and the field-defining writings.This major reference, easily organized to ensure comprehensive coverage of the essential tenets in the field, is the definitive resource for students, researchers and academics of organization studies. Volume One: Historical Perspectives and Emergent Tensions looks at the early history of organization theory, including the capitalist versus religious roots of modern organizations and the historically contested reasons for the emergence of modern organizations. It also addresses the emergent tensions in the field as it begins to become a specialist area of study. Volume Two: The Foundations, presents formal theories of modern organizations, addressing the significant founding attempts to have an empirically based science of organizations, which built on the work of the German sociologist, Max Weber. This volume then addresses the landmark studies that began to build systematic foundations for Organization Theory based on empirical analysis, with the work of Hage, Perrow, Pugh and Blau.Volume Three: Debating Organization Contingencies, addresses the central theories of organization, beginning with Contingency Theory, an approach which has become the mainstream of organization theory scholarship, but which has also attracted criticisms from rival perspectives. Those involved in the debate include Child, Mindlin and Aldrich, Donaldson, Pennings, and Powell. The second part of this volume, 'The Environments of Organizations', considers seminal work that stressed specific contingencies as determinate factors in how organization structuring was addressed, involving the work of Trist and Bamforth, Hickson, Pugh and Pheysey, Child and Mansfield, Aldrich, Ford and Slocum. Volume Four: Institutions and Economics, first addresses the distinct institutional approaches that were inspired by the work of Selznick on Weber, which had formed foundations forty years earlier. This volume includes work by Hirsch, Meyer and Rowan, DiMaggio, Powell, Ranson and Hinings, Granovetter, Scott and Suchman.The volume then considers economics, ownership and organizational forms, revealing attempts by the economics profession to address central organizational agencies in their theorizing, starting from Coase, and also Williamson, who was responsible for introducing 'organizational economics' and moving on to the work of Boisot, Ouchi, Fligstein Donaldson, and Barney and others. Taken together these four volumes represent a diverse and valuable set. The volumes will enable any instructor to construct a coherent and evolutionary course on 'organizations'. Central Currents in Organization Theory Volumes 1 - 4 presents all the main works that lead to the emergence of organization theory and which still constitute central debates in the field.

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Author:   Stewart R Clegg ,  Stewart Clegg
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 12.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   3.150kg
ISBN:  

9780761974505

ISBN 10:   0761974504
Pages:   1680
Publication Date:   28 November 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMERGENT TENSIONS Introduction - S R Clegg PART ONE: EARLY HISTORIES - THE EMERGENCE OF FORMALLY RATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson What Do Bosses Do? - S A Marglin The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production Class Struggle and the Transformation of the Labor Process - David Stark From Asceticism to Administration of Wealth - Alfred Kieser Medieval Monasteries and the Pitfalls of Rationalization The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism - A D Chandler The Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy - J Langton The Case of Josiah Wedgwood and the British Pottery Industry Scientific Management and Class Relations - Peter F Meiksins A Dissenting View Hierarchies and the American Ideals, 1900-1940 - P Miller and T O'Leary Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic - M F Guillen Architecture, Organization, and the Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical PART TWO: HUMAN RELATIONS IN FORMALLY RATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Mind in Everyday Affairs - Chester I Barnard An Examination into Logical and Non-logical Thought Processes The Effects of Social Environment - Lawrence J Henderson, T N Whitehead, and Elton Mayo The Hawthorne Studies - A Carey A Radical Critique Minding the Workers - Ellen O'Connor The Meaning of `Human' and `Human Relations' in Elton Mayo Bureaucratic Structure and Personality - R K Merton Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy - A Gouldner A Convergence in Organization Theory - D J Hickson VOLUME TWO: LAYING THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS PART THREE: SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THEORIES OF MODERN ORGANIZATIONS Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (I) - Talcott Parsons Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (II) - Talcott Parsons Foundations for a Theory of Organizations - P Selznick The Concept of Bureaucracy - R H Hall An Empirical Assessment The Concept of Organization - E Bittner The Study of Organizations - R Mayntz PART FOUR: BUILDING ORGANIZATION THEORIES An Axiomatic Theory of Organizations - J Hage Modern Organization Theory - D S Pugh A Psychological and Sociological Study A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations - C Perrow Dimensions of Organization Structure - D S Pugh, D J Hickson, C R Hinings and C Turner The Context of Organizational Structures - D S Pugh, D J Hickson, C R Hinings and C Turner A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations - P M Blau Interdependence and Hierarchy in Organizations - P M Blau VOLUME THREE: DEBATING ORGANIZATION CONTINGENCIES PART FIVE: DEBATING CONTINGENCY THEORY Organizational Structures, Environment and Performance - John Child The Role of Strategic Choice Technology and Organization Structure - H E Aldrich A Re-examination of the Findings of the Aston Group Interorganizational Dependence - S Mindlin and H E Aldrich A Review of the Concept and a Re-examination of the Findings of the Aston Group Strategy, Structural Adjustment to Regain Fit and Performance - L Donaldson In Defence of Contingency Theory Structural Contingency Theory - J M Pennings A Reappraisal Organizational Alignment as Competitive Advantage - Thomas C Powell Organizational Portfolio Theory - L Donaldson Performance-Driven Organizational Change PART SIX: THE ENVIRONMENTS OF ORGANIZATIONS The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments - F E Emery, and E L Trist Environments of Organizations - Howard E Aldrich and Jeffrey Pfeffer The Population Ecology of Organizations - M T Hannan and J Freeman Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - M T Hannan and J Freeman The Two Ecologies - W G Astley Population and Community Perspectives on Organizational Evolution Organizational Ecology - Terry L Amburgey and Rao Hayagreeval Past, Present, and Future Directions Organizations in Changing Environments - J Allmendinger and J R Hackman The Case of East German Symphony Orchestras VOLUME FOUR: INSTITUTIONS, ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATIONS PART SEVEN: INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS Organizational Effectiveness and the Institutional Environment - P Hirsch Institutionalized Organizations - J W Meyer and B Rowan Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony, American Journal of Sociology Societal Differences in Organizing Manufacturing Units - M Maurice, A Sorge and M Warner A Comparison of France, West Germany and Great Britain Structuring Organizational Structures - S Ranson, C R Hinings and R Greenwood The Iron Cage Revisited - P DiMaggio and W Powell Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields Economic Action and Social Structure - M Granovetter The Problem of Embededdness The Adolescence of Institutional Theory - W R Scott Fit and the Societal Effect - A Sorge Interpreting Cross-National Comparisons of Technology, Organization and Human Resources How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth - J Zysman Institutional Theories of Organization - L Zucker The Internationalization of Firms and Markets - R Whitley Institutionalism `Old' and `New' - P Selznick Understanding Radical Organizational Change - R Greenwood and C R Hinings Bringing Together the Old and New Institutionalism PART EIGHT: ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATIONS The Nature of the Firm - R H Coase Theories of Decision-Making Economics and Behavioural Science - H A Simon Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity and the Engineering of Choice - J G March The Economics of Organizations - O E Williamson The Transaction Cost Approach Economic Theories of Organization - C Perrow Organizational Economics - W S Hesterley, J Liebeskind, and T R Zenger An Impending Revolution in Organization Theory Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans - W G Ouchi Hybrid Organizational Arrangements - Walter W Powell New Form of Transitional Development? Collaboration or Paradigm Shift? - P Hirsch, R Friedman and M P Koza Caveat Emptor and the Risk of Romance with Economic Models for Strategy and Policy Research The Spread of the Multidivisional Firm among Large Firms, 1919-1979' - N Fligstein The Ethereal Hand - L Donaldson Organizational Economics and Management Theory Late Adoption of the Multi-divisional Form by Large US Corporations - D A Palmer, R Friedland, P D Jennings and X Zhou Institutional, Political and Economic Accounts

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Stewart Clegg is Professor in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Leadership at the University of Sydney as well as Emeritus Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway and Universidade Nova School of Business and Economics. He is widely published in the management, organizations and politics literatures in many of the leading journals and is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant contemporary theorists of power relations as well as being one of the most influential contributors to organization studies. He is an EGOS Honorary Member, a Distinguished Fellow of EURAM and ANZAM as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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