Over the past two decades, organization studies has become increasingly pluralistic, with a series of highly charged debates across intellectual `divides′. It is these debates and their consequences for the current position and future development of organization studies that Rethinking Organization addresses. The first section reviews and evaluates the most significant theoretical developments of the last two decades, focusing in particular on the various ways in which `organization′ has been conceptualized as the basis for organizational analyses. The second section examines a range of issues related to the major transformations in organizational forms currently occurring throughout advanced industrial societies. Final contributions outline a range of emergent new perspectives which not only present challenges both to the `old′ and `new′ orthodoxies of the field but also herald important new directions for its future development.
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Rethinking Organisation
Introduction - Michael Reed DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY Incommensurable Paradigms? Vital Signs From Three Perspectives - Howard E Aldrich The Symbolic Understanding of Organizations - Barry A Turner Organization Studies and Scientific Authority - Colin Brown Putting Theory in its Place - Nick Perry The Social Organization of Organizational Theorizing Paradigms Lost - Stephen Ackroyd Paradise Regained? CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS The Social Construction of Organizations and Markets - Richard Whitley Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes Changing Organizational Forms - Mark Wardell From the Bottom Up Back to the Future - Gibson Burrell Time and Organization The Transformation in Work - Alan Whitaker Post-Fordism Revisited EMERGENT PROBLEMATICS Organization Theory in the Postmodern Era - Kenneth J Gergen Re-Writing Gender into Organizational Theorizing - Marta B Cal[ac]as and Linda Smircich Directions from Feminist Perspectives Formal Organization as Representation - Robert Cooper Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation Formative Contexts and Activity Systems - Frank Blackler Postmodern Approaches to the Management of Change CONCLUSION Decluding Organization - Michael Hughes
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`If you are re-thinking that you might re-write your notes on organization so that you may better represent them then I re-commend this is a really friendly place to start the project of re-modernization.′ - The Occupational Psychologist
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ISBN
9780803982888
Publisert
1991-12-09
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320