The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents

by Paul S. Adler (Editor), Paul du Gay (Editor), Glenn Morgan (Editor), Michael Reed (Editor)

Overview

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in organization studies is essential for those wishing to deepen and extend their knowledge of the intersection of sociology and organization studies. This goal is achieved by drawing on a group of internationally renowned scholars committed in their own work to strengthening these links and asking them to provide critical accounts of particular theorists and research themes which have straddled this divide. This volume aims to strengthen ties between organization studies and contemporary sociological work at a time when there are increasing institutional barriers to such cooperation, potentially generating a myopia that constricts new developments. Used in conjunction with its companion volume, The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical foundations, the reader is provided with a comprehensive account of the productive and critical interaction between sociology and organization studies over many decades. Highly international in scope, theorists and themes are drawn from both the USA and Europe in equal measure. Similarly the authors of the chapters are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic. The result is a series of chapters on individuals and key research themes and debates which will provide faculty and post graduate researchers with appreciative, authoritative and critical accounts that can be drawn on to design courses or provided guided reading to the field

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191058066
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	10/16/2014
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	816
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where he holds the Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. Prof. Adler 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. At the Academy of Management, he has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group, as a representative-at-large on the Board of Governors, and he currently serves as the Academy's Vice-President and program chair.

Paul du Gay is Professor of Organization Studies in the Department of Organization (IOA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). His work is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His publications include Consumption and Identity at Work, In Praise of Bureaucracy, and Organizing Identity. At CBS, he directs the Velux research programme, What Makes Organization?, and co-directs the Business in Society Public-Private Platform.

Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research focuses on different forms of capitalism, the impact of globalization and neo-liberalism, and the changing nature of firms and organizations. From 2005-2008, he was Editor in Chief of the journal Organization: The Critical Journal of Theory, Organization and Society. Recent edited books include Capitalism and Capitalisms in the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2012; edited with R. Whitley) and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (OUP 2010; edited with J.L. Campbell, C. Crouch, O.K. Pedersen and R. Whitley).

Professor Michael Reed is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies, continuing entanglements, Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike ReedEuropean Influences: French and German Sociology and Social Theory2. Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller3. Bourdieu and organizational theory: A ghostly apparition?, Barbara Townley4. The Making of a Paradigm: Exploring the Potential of the Economy of Convention and Pragmatic Sociology of Critique, Alan Scott and Pier Paolo Pasqualino5. Bruno Latour: An Accidental Organization Theorist, Barbara Czarniawska6. A Theory of 'Agencing': on Michel Callon's Contribution to Organizational Knowledge and Practice, Franck Cochoy7. Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorist, David Seidl and Hannah Mormann8. Jurgen Habermas and Organization Studies - Contributions and Future Prospects, Andreas Rasche and Andreas Georg Scherer9. Bhaskar and Critical Realism, Steve Fleetwood10. The Comparative Analysis of Capitalism and the Study of Organizations, Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull KristensenAnglo-American Influences: American and British Sociology and Social Theory11. C. Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power, Edward Barratt12. Organizational Analysis: Goffman and Dramaturgy, Peter K. Manning13. Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology, Nick Llewellyn14. Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations, Peter Abell15. Clifford Geertz and the Interpretation of Organizations, Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Jennifer E. Dodge, and Stephen K. Jackson16. Risk, Social Theories and Organizations, Michael Power17. Arlie Hochschild, Emotion And Affect, Stephen Smith18. Discourse and Communication, Timothy R. Kuhn and Linda L. Putnam19. The Second Time Farce: Business School Ethicists and the Emergence of Bastard Rawlsianism, Richard Marens20. Hayek and Organizational Studies, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein21. Social Movement Theory and Organization Studies, Klaus Weber and Brayden King22. What's new in the 'new, new economic sociology' and should Organization Studies care?, Liz McFall and Jose Ossandon23. Critical Theory and Organization Studies, Edward Granter24. British Industrial Sociology and Organization Studies: A Distinctive Contribution, Stephen Ackroyd25. Anthony Giddens and Structuration Theory, Alistair Mutch26. Engendering the Organizational: Feminist Theorizing and Organization Studies, Marta B. Calas and Linda Smircich27. Organizational Studies and the Subjects of Imperialism, Raza Mir and Ali Mir28. Space and Organization Studies, Gibson Burrell and Karen DaleOrganizing Social Worlds: Sociology, Organization Studies and the 'social'29. Organization Studies, Sociology and the Quest for a Public Organization Theory, Andre Spicer30. What Makes Organization? Organizational Theory as a 'Practical Science', Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelso