OMTers might be interested in a forthcoming edited volume on the potential relevance of various classical sociologists for the future of organizational research. We signed up a terrific group of contributors, and discussed drafts of their chapters at a conference at Wharton in August last year, and the book itself will appear in March 2009. I append the table of contents. You might find something of interest in the volume, and we are hoping that graduate students in our field will too.
If you email me, I am happy to send along any of the chapters in their current page-proof form.
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES: CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS,
edited by Paul S. Adler
PART I THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICS
1. Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost-- Paul S. Adler
2. The Value of the Classics -- Patricia H. Thornton
PART II EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
3. Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory -- Richard Swedberg
4. Marx and Organization Studies Today -- Paul S. Adler
5. It's Not Just for Communists Any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory -- Richard Marens
6. Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality -- Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury
7. Max Weber and the Ethics of Office -- Paul du Gay
8. On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the Twenty-First Century -- Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt
9. How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-Making Influenced Organizational Sociology -- Frank Dobbin
10. A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization -- Paul Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green
11. Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory -- Barbara Czarniawska
12. Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization -- Alan Scott
13. Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
14. Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship -- Markus C. Becker and Thorbjorn Knudsen
15. Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies -- Ad Van Iterson
PART III AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
16. Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy -- Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic
17. The Sociology of Race: The Contributions ofW. E. B. Du Bois -- Stella M. Nkomo
18. Organizations and the Chicago School -- Andrew Abbott
19. After James on Identity -- Arne Carlsen
20. Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine -- Michael D. Cohen
21. Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization -- Christopher Ansell
22. Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism -- Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine
23. John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies -- Andrew H. Van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz
24. The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization -- Elisabeth S. Clemens
25. Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies-- Mike Reed
26. The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies:Why Organizations Have Lives of their Own -- Heather A. Haveman
27. Parsons as an Organization Theorist -- Charles Heckscher
PART IV AFTERWORD
28. Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations -- Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald