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Central Currents in Organization Studies volumes 5-8 provides a comprehensive overview of the current challenges to the orthodoxies that emerged at the turn of the 20th century. This collection brings us completely up-to-date, showing how current trends in organization studies are built on concepts and ideas that had long been available but had been marginalized within the field. In this indispensable reference, Stewart Clegg provides an integrated overview of the essential modern tenets in the field of organization studies, beginning with power and the politics of organizing and addressing major issues, which are already or are fast becoming of crucial relevance to the study of organizations, including: * symbolism * culture * aesthetics * emotions * identity * new organizational forms This collection of seminal journal articles includes a leading introductory essay, which shows why organization theories are essential to understanding the human condition. The editor's introduction and articles combined show why organization studies should be at the core of the study of the human condition, allowing us to understand how, why, and in what ways we collectively organize, dispute, act and change the things we do.

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Author:   Stewart R Clegg
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 10.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   3.250kg
ISBN:  

9780761974970

ISBN 10:   0761974970
Pages:   1638
Publication Date:   23 May 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

VOLUME FIVE: POLITICAL RELATIONS AND ARENA BOTH IN AND AROUND ORGANIZATIONS PART NINE: POWER AND THE POLITICS OF ORGANIZING A Strategic Contingencies Theory of Intra-Organizational Power - D J Hickson, C R Hinings, C A Lee, R L Schneck and J M Pennings The Bases and Uses of Power in Organizational Decision-Making - G Salancik and J Pfeffer Strategy Formulation as a Political Process - A M Pettigrew The Organization as a Political Arena - H Mintzberg Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership - M Cal[ac]as and L Smircich The Political Process of Innovation - P J Frost and C P Egri Radical Revisions - S R Clegg Power, Discipline and Organizations Tightening the Iron Cage - J R Barker Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams The Discipline of Teams - G Sewell The Control of Team-Based Industrial Work Through Electronic and Peer Surveillance Are There No Limits to Authority? - D Knights and D McCabe Domination, Self-Determination and Circular Organizing - A Romme, L Georges Power and Discretion - R Munro Membership Work in the Time of Technology Managerial Strategies of Domination - D Courpasson Power in Soft Bureaucracies PART TEN: INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION AND ALLIANCES The Interorganizational Network as a Political Economy - K J Benson Conditions Facilitating Interorganizational Collaboration - B Gray The Strength of Weak Ties - M S Granovetter Networks - H B Thorelli Between Markets and Hierarchies Inter-Firm Networks - A Grandori and G Soda Antecedents, Mechanism and Forms Developmental Processes of Co-Operative Interorganizational Relationships - P S Ring and A H Van de Ven Managing 21st Century Network Organizations - C C Snow, R E Miles and H J Coleman Jr Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks - B Uzzi The Paradox of Embeddedness Trust and Interorganizational Networking - S Newell and J Swan VOLUME SIX: DISCURSIVE SUBJECTS AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PART ELEVEN: DISCURSIVE SUBJECTS Situated Actions and Vocabulary of Motive - C W Mills Cosmopolitans and Locals - A Gouldner Banana Time - D Roy Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities - H Garfinkel The Police on Skid Row - E Bittner A Study of Peacekeeping Technical Work and Critical Inquiry - M Lynch Investigations in a Scientific Laboratory Talking Social Structure - H Molotch and D Boden Discourse, Dominance and the Watergate Hearings Studying Organizational Interaction - D Silverman Ethnomethodology's Contribution to the `New Institutionalism' PART TWELVE: RESEARCHING ORGANIZING QUALITATIVELY On Intellectual Craftsmanship - C W Mills The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography - J Van Maanen Longitudinal Field Research on Change Theory and Practice - A M Pettigrew Deconstructing Organizational Taboos - J Martin The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations Appealing Work - D Golden-Biddle and K Locke An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince Stories of the Storytelling Organization - D Boje A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as 'Tamara-Land' Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods - T J Jick Triangulation in Action Varieties of Discourse - M Alvesson and D Karreman On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis VOLUME SEVEN: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL REALITIES PART THIRTEEN: ORGANIZATIONS ENCULTURED AND ENCODED Sociological Aspects of Organizational Symbolism - B Turner Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures - S Barley On Studying Organizational Cultures - A Pettigrew Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis - L Smircich Jokers Wild - S Linstead The Importance of Humour in the Maintenance of Organization Culture Corporate Culture - C Ray The Last Frontier of Control Organizational Culture - E Schein On Reading Organizational Culture - S Linstead and R Grafton-Small Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life - A Strati Strength Is Ignorance - H Willmott Slavery is Freedom; Managing Culture in Modern Organizations Max Weber's Relevence for the Sociology of Organizations - S R Clegg PART FOURTEEN: ORGANIZATIONS AS SENSE-MAKING ARENAS Breakfast at Spiro's - M Rosen Dramaturgy and Dominance The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action - B M Staw Emotional `Man' - H Flam Corporate Actors as Emotion-Motivated Emotion Managers Sine Ira et Studio - Or Do Organizations Have Feelings? - M Albrow Technology as an Occasion for Structuring Evidence for Observations of CAT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments - S Barley The Collapse of Sense-Making in Organizations - K Weick The Mann Gulch Disaster Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems - E Wenger Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning - H A Simon VOLUME EIGHT: PARADIGMS OF THEORY; PARADIGMS FOR PRACTICE PART FIFTEEN: PARADIGMS AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES Overcoming Hermeticisim in Organization Theory - J Hassard An Alternative to Paradigm Incommensurability Multiparadigm Perspectives on Theory Building - A Gioia and E Pitre Metatriangulations - M W Lewis and A J Grimes Building Theory from Multiple Paradigms Mortality, Reproducibility and the Persistence of Styles of Theory - J Pfeffer Fear and Loathing in Organization Studies - J Van Maanen Who is Afraid of Incommensurability? - B Czarniawska Relativity Without Relativism - C Hardy and S Clegg Reflexivity in Post-Paradigm Organization Studies Theory Construction as Disciplined Reflexivity - K Weick Trade-offs in the 90s PART SIXTEEN: PARADIGMS FOR NEW ORGANIZATION FORMS New Organizational Forms - W V Heydebrand Colossal Immodesties and Hopeful Monsters - P Du Gay Pluralism and Organisational Conduct A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation - I Nonaka The Future, Disposable Organizations, and the Rigidities of Imagination - J G March Electronic Communication and Changing Organizational Forms - J Fulk and G DeSanctis Towards the Flexible Form - H W Volberda How to Remain Vital in Hypercompetitive Environments Modularity, Flexibility and Knowledge Managment in Product and Organization Design - R Sanchez and JT Mahoney The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System - H Tsoukas A Contructivist Approach The Coevolution of New Organizational Forms - A Y Lewin, C P Long and T N Carroll Innovative Forms of Organising in Europe and Japan - A Pettigrew, S Massini and T Numagami Management Paradigms for the New Millennium - T Clarke and S Clegg

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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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