Rethinking organization : new directions in organization theory and analysis

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Sage Publications, 1992.Description: viii, 309 pISBN:

9780803982871
0803982879
9780803982888
0803982887 (pbk.)

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Organization

DDC classification:

658.001 RET

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Contents:

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 : the social organization of organizational theorizing / Nick Perry -- Paradigms lost : paradise regained? / Stephen Ackroyd -- Changing organizational forms. The social construction of organizations and markets : the comparative analysis of business recipes / Richard Whitley -- Changing organizational forms : from the bottom up / Mark Wardell -- Back to the future : time and organization / Gibson Burrell -- The transformation in work : post-Fordism revisited / Alan Whitaker -- Emergent problematics. Organization theory in the postmodern era / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Re-writing gender into organizational theorizing : directions from feminist perspectives / Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich. (cont.) Formal organization as representation : remote control, displacement and abbreviation / Robert Cooper -- Formative contexts and activity systems : postmodern approaches to the management of change / Frank Blackler -- Conclusion. Decluding organization / Michael Hughes.

Summary: 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.

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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 : the social organization of organizational theorizing / Nick Perry --
Paradigms lost : paradise regained? / Stephen Ackroyd --
Changing organizational forms. The social construction of organizations and markets : the comparative analysis of business recipes / Richard Whitley --
Changing organizational forms : from the bottom up / Mark Wardell --
Back to the future : time and organization / Gibson Burrell --
The transformation in work : post-Fordism revisited / Alan Whitaker --
Emergent problematics. Organization theory in the postmodern era / Kenneth J. Gergen --
Re-writing gender into organizational theorizing : directions from feminist perspectives / Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich. (cont.) Formal organization as representation : remote control, displacement and abbreviation / Robert Cooper --
Formative contexts and activity systems : postmodern approaches to the management of change / Frank Blackler --
Conclusion. Decluding organization / Michael Hughes.

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.

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