The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies Classical Foundations

by Adler, Paul S.

• ISBN13: 9780199535231
• ISBN10: 019953523X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Organizations are a defining feature of the modern world, and the study of organizations (Organization Studies) has become well established in both sociology departments and professional schools, most notably in business and management schools.

Author Biography

Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He received his doctorate in economics and management there while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and design, strategic management and human resource management in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. x
List of Tables	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
The Roles of the Classics
Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost	p. 3
The Value of the Classics	p. 20
European Perspectives
Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory	p. 39
Marx and Organization Studies Today	p. 62
It's Not Just for Communists Any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory	p. 92
Weber: Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality	p. 118
Max Weber and the Ethics of Office	p. 146
On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the Twenty-First Century	p. 174
How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology	p. 200
A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization	p. 223
Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory	p. 246
Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization	p. 268
Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior	p. 291
Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship	p. 307
Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies	p. 327
American Perspectives
Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy	p. 351
The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois	p. 375
Organizations and the Chicago School	p. 399
After James on Identity	p. 421
Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine	p. 444
Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization	p. 464
Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism	p. 486
John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies	p. 510
The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization	p. 535
Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies	p. 559
The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies: Why Organizations Have Lives of their Own	p. 585
Parsons as an Organization Theorist	p. 607
Afterword
Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations	p. 635
Index	p. 647
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