Series title Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume number 47
Emerald Books
The Structuring of Work in Organizations
Editors:
Lisa E. Cohen, McGill University; M. Diane Burton, Cornell University; Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta
Synopsis
Differences in management behavior across organizations are attributed to differences in priorities and objectives or differences in the style and preferences of the individuals involved. This volume challenges this image by attending to the extra-organizational and extra-individual forces that shape and constrain how work is structured in organizations. The authors focus their attention on work within and between organizations and emphasize the ways in which the jobs are defined, the power and autonomy they engender, the opportunities that are afforded, and the constraints that are imposed, are continuously contested not only at the individual level, but also at a more aggregate and collective level. This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars convened with generous support of the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. It presents new theoretical and empirical papers that examine aspects of the changing nature of jobs and work in organizations from multiple perspectives and methodologies.
Chapters
Introduction: Bringing Jobs Back In: Toward a New Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Work and Organizations
M. Diane Burton , Lisa E. Cohen , Michael Lounsbury (pp. 1 - 22)
· Part I: Tasks and Jobs as Building Blocks
Jobs as Gordian Knots: A New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations, and Institutions
Lisa E. Cohen (pp. 25 - 59)
Idiosyncratic Jobs, Organizational Transformation, and Career Mobility
Anne S. Miner , Olubukunola (Bukky) Akinsanmi (pp. 61 - 101)
The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty's Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism
Michel Anteby (pp. 103 - 121)
· Part II: Occupational and Professional Boundaries
Compliance Police or Business Partner? Institutional Complexity and Occupational Tensions in Human Resource Management
Kurt W. Sandholtz , Tyler N. Burrows (pp. 161 - 191)
· Part III: Structure as Constraint
Structure at Work: Organizational Forms and the Division of Labor in U.S. Wineries
Heather A. Haveman , Anand Swaminathan , Eric B. Johnson (pp. 195 - 239)
It's Not You, It's Your Job: Network Evolution within Firms
Jennifer Kurkoski (pp. 241 - 274)
Help Me Do It on My Own: How Entrepreneurs Manage Autonomy and Constraint within Incubator Organizations
Victor P. Seidel , Kelley A. Packalen , Siobhan O'Mahony (pp. 275 - 307)
· Part IV: Changing and Perpetuating Structures
Legal Avoidance and the Restructuring of Work
Charlotte S. Alexander (pp. 311 - 331)
Externalization of Work by Corporate Law Firms: Implications for Careers and the Profession
Christine Riordan , Paul Osterman (pp. 333 - 361)
Work as Commons: Internal Labor Markets, Blended Workforces and Management
Arnaldo Camuffo , Federica De Stefano (pp. 363 - 382)
From Adapting Practices to Inhabiting Ideas: How Managers Restructure Work across Organizations
Ruthanne Huising (pp. 383 - 413)
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Lisa E. Cohen
Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior
Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University
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