Book Description

ABOUT THE EDITOR Stewart Clegg is Research Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has published many books and has well over a hundred journal and other refereed publications, some of which have been Academy award-winning. 1997 receipient of the George R. Terry award of the American Academy of Management for the Handbook of Organization Studies (SAGE Publications 1996, co-edited with Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord) for its 'outstanding contributions to the advancement of management knowledge'. Prof. Clegg is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. This benchmark collection in organization studies is divided into eight volumes, organized into sixteen parts: § Volume One: Historical Perspectives and Emergent Tensions looks at the early history of organization theory, including the capitalist versus religious roots of modern organizations and the historically contested reasons for the emergence of modern organizations. It also addresses the emergent tensions in the field as it begins to become a specialist area of study. § Volume Two: The Foundations, presents formal theories of modern organizations, addressing the significant founding attempts to have an empirically based science of organizations, which built on the work of the German sociologist, Max Weber. This volume then addresses the landmark studies that began to build systematic foundations for Organization Theory based on empirical analysis, with the work of Stinchcombe, Hage, Perrow, Pugh and Blau. § Volume Three: Debating Contingency Theory, addresses the central theories of organization, beginning with Contingency Theory, an approach which has become the mainstream of organization theory scholarship, but which has also attracted criticisms from rival perspectives. Those involved in the debate include Silverman, Child, Mindlin and Aldrich, Donaldson, Pennings, and Powell. The second part of this volume, 'Technology, Size, Environment, Ecology and Organizational Form', considers seminal work that stressed specific contingencies as determinate factors in how organization structuring was addressed, involving the work of Trist and Bamforth, Hickson, Pugh and Pheysey, Child and Mansfield, Aldrich, Ford and Slocum. § Volume Four: Institutions and Economics, first addresses the distinct institutional approaches that were inspired by the work of Selznick on Weber, which had formed foundations forty years earlier. This volume includes work by Hirsch, Meyer and Rowan, DiMaggio, Powell, Ranson and Hinings, Granovetter, Scott and Suchman. The volume then considers economics, ownership and organizational forms, revealing attempts by the economics profession to address central organizational agencies in their theorizing, starting from Coase, and also Williamson, who was responsible for introducing 'organizational economics' and moving on to the work of Boisot, Ouchi, Fligstein Donaldson, and Barney and others. § Volume Five Political Relations and Arenas Part Nine Power and the Politics of Organizing Part Ten Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Alliances § Volume Six Discursive Subjects & Qualitative Research Part Eleven Discursive Subjects Part Twelve Researching Organizing Qualitatively § Volume Seven Symbols,Cultures, Aesthetics, Emotions and Sensemaking Part Thirteen Organizations understood through their Symbols and Cultures Part Fourteen Aesthetics, Emotions, Sensemaking and Identity in Organizations § Volume Eight Paradigms of Theory; Paradigms for Practice Part Fifteen Paradigms and Organization Studies Part Sixteen Paradigms for New Organization Forms (Provisional contents for Vols. 5 -8, subject to change)