The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies (eBook, PDF)

Classical Foundations
Redaktion: Adler, Paul S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Organizations are a defining feature of the modern world, and the study of organizations (organization studies) has become well established in both sociology departments and professional schools, most notably business and management schools. Organization studies has long drawn inspiration from foundational work in sociology. The sociological lens affords depth of insight into the technological, economic, cultural, and political forces that shape organizations from both within and without. In particular, "classical" works in sociology have long energized organizational research, primarily by suggesting ways of making sense of the ever-accelerating pace of social change. In recent decades, however, the field has lost interest in these sociology classics. This trend reflects and reinforces an increasingly inward-looking and academic focus of contempory organization studies. Not only does this trend weaken organization studies' engagement with the big social issues of our time, but it isolates the field from the broader field of the social sciences. The aim of this Handbook is to re-assert the importance of classical sociology to the future of organization studies. Alongside several thematic chapters, the volume includes chapters on each of nearly two dozen major European and American theorists. Each of these chapter addressing: (a) the ideas and their context, (b) the impact of these ideas on the field of organization studies, and (c) the potential future research these ideas might inspire. The goal is not reverential exegesis, but rather to examine how the classics can energize organizational research. This wide-ranging Handbook, with contributions from leading American and European scholars, will be a vital, informative, and stimulating resource for anybody undertaking research in, teaching, or interested in learning more about organization studies today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191560194
• Artikelnr.: 38134676

Autorenporträt

Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He received his doctorate in economics and management there while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and design, strategic management and human resource management in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: The Role of the Classics
* 1: Paul Adler: Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its
Founders is Lost
* 2: Patricia H. Thornton: The Value of the Classics
* Part II: European Perspectives
* 3: Richard Swedburg: Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory
* 4: Paul Adler: Marx and Organization Studies Today
* 5: Richard Marens: It's Not Just for Communists any More: Marxian
Political Economy and Organizational Theory
* 6: Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury: Weber:Sintering the Iron
Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality
* 7: Paul du Gay: Max Weber and the Ethics of Office
* 8: Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt: On Organizations and
Oligarchies: Michels in 21st Century
* 9: Frank Dobbin: How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced
Organizational Sociology
* 10: Paul Hirsch, Peer Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green: A Durkheimian
Approach to Globalization
* 11: Barbara Czarniawska: Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory
* 12: Alan Scott: Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization
* 13: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana: Types and Positions: The
Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational
Behavior
* 14: Markus C. Becker and Thorbjørn Knudsen: Schumpeter and the
Organization of Entrepreneurship
* 15: Ad van Iterson: Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies
* Part III: American Perspectives
* 16: Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic: Thorstein Veblen and the
Organization of the Capitalist Economy
* 17: Stella M. Nkomo: The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W.
E. B. Du Bois
* 18: Andrew Abbott: Organizations and the Chicago School
* 19: Arne Carlsen: After James on Identity
* 20: Michael D. Cohen: Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study
of Routine
* 21: Christopher Ansell: Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist
Organization
* 22: Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine: Peopling
Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an
Inhabited Institutionalism
* 23: Andrew Van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz: John R. Commons: Back to
the Future of Organization Studies
* 24: Elisabeth S. Clemens: The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism
and the Large Organization
* 25: Michael Reed: Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in
Contemporary Organization Studies
* 26: Heather Haveman: The Columbia School and the Study of
Organizations: Why Organizations Have Lives of Their Own
* 27: Charles Heckscher: Parsons as an Organization Theorist
* Part IV: Afterword
* 28: Gerald Davis and Mayer N. Zald: Afterword: Sociological Classics
and the Canon in the Study of Organizations