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

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

    Posted 11-06-2014 16:26
    With apologies for self-promotion and cross-listing... We would like to bring to your attention a publication that might be of interest:

    THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL THEORY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES: CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS,

    Edited by Paul S. Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed 

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    Overview:

    This Handbook is the successor to a 2010 collection entitled The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical foundations (information on that volume is appended). The Introduction to that collection was titled: "A social science which forgets its founders is lost". Whereas that volume aimed to renew awareness of the rich heritage bequeathed organization studies by pre-1950 sociology, this second, companion volume aims to strengthen ties between organization studies and contemporary sociological work. This volume appears at a time when there are increasing institutional barriers to such cooperation, potentially generating a myopia that constricts new developments. Sociology and social theory have always been major sources of new perspectives for organization studies. This volume offers scholars in this field easy access to authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in sociology and social theory which have impacted on organization studies in the current period. This volume draws on a group of internationally renowned scholars committed in their own work to strengthening these links. The authors, theorists and themes are drawn from the USA and Europe in equal measure. 

     

    Table of Contents:

     

    1. Introduction: Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies, Continuing Entanglements -- Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed

     

    PART I: EUROPEAN INFLUENCES: FRENCH AND GERMAN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY

    2.  Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives -- Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller

    3. Bourdieu and Organizational Theory: A Ghostly Apparition? -- Barbara Townley

    4. The Making of a Paradigm: Exploring the Potential of the Economy of Convention and Pragmatic Sociology of Critique -- Alan Scott and Pier Paolo Pasqualoni

    5. Bruno Latour: An Accidental Organization Theorist -- Barbara Czarniawska

    6.  A Theory of 'Agencing': On Michel Callon's Contribution to Organizational Knowledge and Practice -- Franck Cochoy

    7.  Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorist -- David Seidl and Hannah Mormann

    8. Jürgen Habermas and Organization Studies: Contributions and Future Prospects -- Andreas Rasche and Andreas Georg Scherer

    9.  Bhaskar and Critical Realism -- Steve Fleetwood

    10. The Comparative Analysis of Capitalism and the Study of Organizations -- Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull Kristensen

     

    PART II: ANGLO-AMERICAN INFLUENCES: AMERICAN AND BRITISH SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY

    11. C. Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power -- Edward Barratt

    12. Organizational Analysis: Goffman and Dramaturgy -- Peter K. Manning

    13. Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology -- Nick Llewellyn

    14. Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations -- Peter Abell

    15. Clifford Geertz and the Interpretation of Organizations -- Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Jennifer E. Dodge, and Stephen K. Jackson

    16. Risk, Social Theories, and Organizations -- Michael Power

    17. Arlie Russell Hochschild: Spacious Sociologies of Emotion -- Stephen Smith

    18. Discourse and Communication -- Timothy R. Kuhn and Linda L. Putnam

    19. The Second Time Farce: Business School Ethicists and the Emergence of Bastard Rawlsianism -- Richard Marens

    20. Hayek and Organization Studies -- Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein

    21. Social Movement Theory and Organization Studies -- Klaus Weber and Brayden King

    22. What's New in the 'New, New Economic Sociology' and Should Organization Studies Care? -- Liz McFall and José Ossandón

    23. Critical Theory and Organization Studies -- Edward Granter

    24. British Industrial Sociology and Organization Studies: A Distinctive Contribution -- Stephen Ackroyd

    25. Anthony Giddens and Structuration Theory -- Alistair Mutch

    26. Engendering the Organizational: Feminist Theorizing and Organization Studies -- Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich

    27. Organization Studies and the Subjects of Imperialism -- Raza Mir and Ali Mir

    28. Space and Organization Studies -- Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale

     

    PART III: ORGANIZING SOCIAL WORLDS: SOCIOLOGY, ORGANIZATION STUDIES, AND THE 'SOCIAL'

    29. Organization Studies, Sociology, and the Quest for a Public Organization Theory -- André Spicer

    30. What Makes Organization? Organizational Theory as a 'Practical Science' -- Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelsø

     

    The prior volume, available in hardback, paperback and ebooks format, was:

    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

     


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    Paul S. Adler,

    Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Prof. of Management and Organization at the Marshall School Business, University of Southern California (personal website: here),

    President of the Academy of Management (AOM website: here)