| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 679 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction : a social science which forgets its founders is lost / Paul S. Adler -- The value of the classics / Patricia H. Thornton -- Tocqueville as a pioneer in organization theory / Richard Swedberg -- Marx and organization studies today / Paul S. Adler -- It's not just for communists any more : Marxian political economy and organizational theory / Richard Marens -- Weber : sintering the iron cage : translation, domination, and rationality / Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury -- Max Weber and the ethics of office / Paul du Gay -- On organizations and oligarchies : Michels in the twenty-first century / Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt -- How Durkheim's theory of meaning-making influenced organizational sociology / Frank Dobbin -- A Durkheimian approach to globalization / Paul Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green -- Gabriel Tarde and organization theory / Barbara Czarniawska -- Georg Simmel : the individual and the organization / Alan Scott -- Types and positions : the significance of Georg Simmel's structural theories for organizational behavior / Rodabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana -- Schumpeter and the organization of entrepreneurship / Markus C. Becker and Thorbjorn Knudsen -- Norbert Elias's impact on organization studies / Ad van Iterson -- Thorstein Veblen and the organization of the capitalist economy / Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic -- The sociology of race : the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois / Stella M. Nkomo -- Organizations and the Chicago School / Andrew Abbott -- After James on identity / Arne Carlsen -- Reading Dewey : some implications for the study of routine / Michael D. Cohen -- Mary Parker Follett and pragmatist organization / Christopher Ansell -- Peopling organizations : the promise of classic symbolic interactionism for an inhabited instutionalism / Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine -- John R. Commons : back to the future of organization studies / Andrew H. van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz -- The problem of the corporation : liberalism and the large organization / Elisabeth S. Clemens -- Bureaucratic theory and intellectual renewal in contemporary organization studies / Michael Reed -- The Columbia School and the study of bureaucracies : why organizations have lives of their own / Heather A. Haveman -- Parsons as an organization theorist / Charles Heckscher -- Sociological classics and the canon in the study of organizations / Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald |
| Summary |
We live in a society of organisations, organisations which have profound and pervasive effects on our lives at work and beyond. Contemporary society and its organisations are in a period of accelerated, profound change. In this book, leading sociology and organsational scholars consider how 'classic' sociologists can help make sense of change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Organizational sociology.
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Organizational behavior.
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Organizational behavior
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Organizational sociology
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Organisationstheorie
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Organisatiesociologie.
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Sociology & Social History.
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Social Sciences.
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Social Change.
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Organisationshandeln.
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Organisationssoziologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adler, Paul S.
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| LC no. |
2008046059 |
| ISBN |
9780191577352 |
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0191577359 |
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9780191560194 |
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0191560197 |
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