The Oxford handbook of sociology and organizationstudies: classical foundations

This Handbook re-asserts the importance of classical sociology as a rich source of insight for contemporary work in organization studies, and demonstrates the way in which these pioneers were deeply engaged with practical, social, and political issues of their time, compared with the increasingly academic focus of research in more recent decades. INDICE: Part I: The Role of the Classics; 1: Paul Adler: Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost; 2: Patricia H. Thornton: The Value of the Classics; Part II: European Perspectives; 3: Richard Swedburg: Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory; 4: Paul Adler: Marx and Organization Studies Today; 5: Richard Marens: It's Not Just for Communists any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory; 6: Stewart Clegg andMichael Lounsbury: Weber:Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality; 7: Paul du Gay: Max Weber and the Ethics of Office; 8: Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt: On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in 21stCentury; 9: Frank Dobbin: How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology; 10: Paul Hirsch, Peer Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green: ADurkheimian Approach to Globalization; 11: Barbara Czarniawska: Gabriel Tardeand Organization Theory; 12: Alan Scott: Georg Simmel: The Individual and theOrganization; 13: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana: Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior; 14: Markus C. Becker and Thorbjørn Knudsen: Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship; 15: Ad van Iterson: Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies; Part III: American Perspectives; 16: Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic: Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy;17: Stella M. Nkomo: The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois; 18: Andrew Abbott: Organizations and the Chicago School; 19: Arne Carlsen: After James on Identity; 20: Michael D. Cohen: Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine; 21: Christopher Ansell: Mary Parker Follett andPragmatist Organization; 22: Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine: Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism; 23: Andrew Van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz: John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies; 24: Elisabeth S. Clemens:The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization; 25: Michael Reed: Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies; 26: Heather Haveman: The Columbia School and the Study of Organizations: Why Organizations Have Lives of Their Own; 27: Charles Heckscher: Parsons as an Organization Theorist; Part IV: Afterword; 28: Gerald Davis and Mayer N. Zald: Afterword: Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959381-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 704
• Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés