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<st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region>, April 2010 – Between 1970 and 2000, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> was the birthplace of radical breakthroughs in the field of Organization Theory. The scope of its intellectual contribution to this field of study has prompted researchers to ask what caused such proliferation of new ideas at this place and time.

In new book 'Stanford's Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000', over 30 scholars who taught and trained at Stanford in that period turn the sociological lens back, seeking to explain why the University generated so many good ideas and path-breaking studies.

"Remarkable things took place at Stanford University in the recent past involving a wide range of scholars that need to be recognized, remembered, and celebrated", remarks W. Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Stanford University.

Edited by Frank Dobbin, from <st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, and Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename></st1:place>, this book offers a wide range of analyses of what causes intellectual dynamism to develop interdisciplinary communities.

Stanford's Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000 is Volume 28 of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations book series, published by Emerald Group Publishing http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781849509305

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