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Offering a solid grounding in the historical and contemporary concerns of the field, Central Currents in Organization Studies I & II presents an innovative and thematically coherent selection of seminal articles. This eight-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 160 key original articles included in the collection, the each 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.

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Author:   Stewart R Clegg
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 10.10cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   6.400kg
ISBN:  

9780761947264

ISBN 10:   0761947264
Pages:   3344
Publication Date:   22 May 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
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 - D Stark From Asceticism to Administration of Wealth - A 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 - P 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 - C I Barnard An Examination into Logical and Non-logical Thought Processes The Effects of Social Environment - L J Henderson, T N Whitehead, and E Mayo The Hawthorne Studies - A Carey A Radical Critique Minding the Workers - E 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) - T Parsons Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations (II) - T 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 - J 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 and 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 - T 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 - H E Aldrich and J 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 Hayagreeva 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 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 Its Significance and Institutional Structuring 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 - W 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 VOLUME FIVE: POLITICAL RELATIONS AND ARENAS 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 Understanding Organizational Power - K McNeil Building on the Weberian Legacy Structural Sources of Intraorganizational Power - W G Astley and P S Sachdeva A Theoretical Synthesis 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: INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL 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 Cooperative 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 The Construction, Forms, and Consequences of Industrial Networks - M Ebers and J C Jarillo Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks - B Uzzi The Paradox of Embeddedness Trust and Inter-Organizational 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 Metaphors of the Field - P K Manning Varieties of Organizational Discourse 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 From Interpretation to Representation in Organization Analysis - P Jeffcut Postmodernism, Ethnography, and Organizational Symbolism 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 Discourse and the Study of Organizations - L Heracleous and J Hendry Towards a Structurational Perspective VOLUME SEVEN: SYMBOLS, CULTURES, AESTHETICS, EMOTIONS AND SENSEMAKING PART THIRTEEN: ORGANIZATIONS UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THEIR SYMBOLS AND CULTURES 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 Cultural Change - D Meyerson and J Martin An Integration of Three Different Views Organizational Culture - E Schein On Reading Organizational Culture - S Linstead and R Grafton-Small Strength is Ignorance - H Willmott Slavery is Freedom; Managing Culture in Modern Organizations Breakfast at Spiro's - M Rosen Dramaturgy and Dominance Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life - A Strati 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 Organizations as Sense-Making Contexts - P K Manning Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems - W Wenger Power and Identity in Theory and Practice - D Knights and H Willmott f002 VOLUME EIGHT: PARADIGMS OF THEORY; PARADIGMS FOR PRACTICE PART FIFTEEN: PARADIGMS AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES Motivation, Leadership and Organization - G Hofstede Do American Theories Apply Abroad? 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 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 The Coevolution of New Organizational Forms - A Y Lewin, C P Long and T N Carroll Inovative 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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