Debating Organization Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies

by Westwood, Robert; Clegg, Stewart

• ISBN13: 9780631216926
• ISBN10: 0631216928
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume introduces readers to the central debates of organization studies through a series of 'point' and 'counterpoint' debates by major figures in the field. Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates of organization studies. Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placing competing perspectives side by side. Includes contributions from major figures in the field. Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint' format.

Author Biography

Robert Westwood is Reader/Associate Professor at the University of Queensland Business School. He is the co-editor of The Language of Organization (2001), Hong Kong Management and Labour: Continuity and Change (1999) and the editor of Organizational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives (1992). Westwood is also an associate editor of the journal Culture and Organisation and on the editorial board of Organization Studies.

Stewart Clegg is Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author or editor of many books, including Frameworks of Power (1989), Modern Organizations (1990) and the Handbook of Organization Studies (1996), which won the George R. Terry Book Award of the American Academy of Management for 'most outstanding contribution to management knowledge' in 1997.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
1 The Discourse of Organization Studies: Dissensus, Politics, and Paradigms	1	(42)
Robert Westwood and Stewart Clegg
PART I FOUNDATIONS	43	(138)
2 Organization Studies: Discipline or Field?	45	(38)
Commentary: What Kind of Science should Organization Studies Strive to be?	45	(38)
2a From Fields to Science: Can Organization Studies make the Transition?	47	(26)
Bill McKelvey
2b Paradigm Plurality: Exploring Past, Present, and Future Trends	73	(10)
Mihaela Kelemen and John Hassard
3 Ontology	83	(31)
Commentary: Let's get Ontological	83	(31)
3a Order is Free: On the Ontological Status of Organizations	84	(14)
Kimberly B. Boal, James G. (Jerry) Hunt, and Stephen J. Jaros
3b Ontology: Organization as "World-making"	98	(16)
Robert Chia
4 Epistemology	114	(26)
Commentary: On being Positivist and becoming Constructivist	114	(26)
4a Position Statement for Positivism	116	(12)
Lex Donaldson
4b Social Constructionism and Organization Studies	128	(12)
Barbara Czarniawska
5 Methodology	140	(41)
Commentary: Ironic Authenticity and Paradoxical Constructivism	140	(43)
5a From Subjectivity to Objectivity: A Constructivist Account of Objectivity in Organization Theory	142	(14)
William McKinley
5b From Objectivity to Subjectivity: Pursuing Subjective Authenticity in Organizational Research	156	(27)
Peter Case
PART II FRAMES	181	(90)
6 Organization - Environment	183	(25)
Commentary: Enacting/Institutionalizing	183	(25)
6a Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing	184	(11)
Karl E. Weick
6b Constructing the Iron Cage: Institutional Theory and Enactment	195	(13)
P. Devereaux Jennings and Royston Greenwood
7 Power and Institutions	208	(24)
Commentary: The Dynamics of Institutions	208	(24)
7a The Problem of Order Revisited: Towards a more Critical Institutional Perspective	210	(10)
Michael Lounsbury
7b Discourse or Institution? Institutional Theory and the Challenge of Critical Discourse Analysis	220	(12)
Nelson Phillips
8 Globalization	232	(39)
Commentary: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Globalization	232	(41)
8a The Disorganization of Inclusion: Globalization as Process	234	(18)
Barbara Parker
8b Globalization and the Organization(s) of Exclusion in Advanced Capitalism	252	(21)
Marc T. Jones
PART III STRUCTURE AND CULTURE	271	(50)
9 Structure	273	(25)
Commentary: Organization Structure	273	(25)
9a Organization	275	(8)
Bob Hinings
9b Disorganization	283	(15)
Rolland Munro
10 Culture	298	(23)
Commentary: Making Sense of Culture	298	(25)
l0a The Case for Culture	300	(11)
Neal M. Ashkanasy
l0b Instantiative versus Entitative Culture: The Case for Culture as Process	311	(12)
Andrew Chan
PART IV IDENTITY AND RELATIONSHIPS	321	(59)
11 Gender and Identity	323	(16)
Commentary: Nondebating Gender	323	(16)
Theorizing Gender and Organizing	325	(14)
Silvia Gherardi, Judi Marshall, and Albert J. Mills
12 Trust	339	(29)
Commentary: Organizational Psychosis versus the Virtues of Trust	339	(29)
12a The Virtues of Prudent Trust	341	(15)
Roderick M. Kramer
12b "Fool'd with Hope, Men favour the Deceit," or, Can we Trust in Trust?	356	(12)
Burkard Sievers
13 Question Time: Notes on Altercation	368	(12)
Stephen Linstead
Index	380