Contributor
Adler, Paul S.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxix, 679 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Introduction: a social science which forgets its founders is lost / Paul S. Adler -- The value of the classics / Patricia H. Thornton -- PART II EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES 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 -- 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 / Rosabeth 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 -- PART III AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES 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 institutionalism / 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 / Mike 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 -- PART IV AFTERWORD Sociological classics and the canon in the study of organizations / Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
