Table Of ContentSAGE DIRECTIONS IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES
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Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Research
Director of the Centre for Management and Organization Studies; he has recently
been a Visiting Professor of Organizational Change Management, Maastricht
University Faculty of Business, and Visiting Professor and International Fellow in
Discourse and Management Theory, Centre of Comparative Social Studies, Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, and also at Copenhagen Business School as well as a
Visiting Professor to the EM-Lyon Doctoral Program. He is a prolific publisher
in leading academic journals in management and organization theory, and is
the author and editor of over 40 monographs, textbooks, encyclopaedia, and
handbooks.
SAGE LIBRARY IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
SAGE DIRECTIONS
IN ORGANIZATION
STUDIES
VOLUME I
Edited by
Stewart R. Clegg
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Contents
Appendix of Sources xi
Foreword xix
Editor’s Introduction: Directions in Organization Studies Stewart Clegg xxi
Volume I
Histories
1. The Roots of Uncertainty in Organization Theory: A Historical
Constructivist Analysis 3
Yehouda Shenhav and Ely Weitz
2. From King to Court Jester? Weber’s Fall from Grace
in Organizational Theory 31
Michael Lounsbury and Edward J. Carberry
3. ‘Dead Selves’: The Birth of the Modern Career 57
Alan McKinlay
4. Shouldn’t Organization Theory Emerge from Adolescence? 77
William H. Starbuck
5. The Study of Organizations and Organizing since 1945 91
James G. March
6. Managing Foucault: Genealogies of Management 103
Alan McKinlay
7. From Freemasons to the Employee: Organization,
History and Subjectivity 119
Tim Newton
8. Ties to the Past in Organization Research: A Comparative
Analysis of Retrospective Methods 145
Julie Wolfram Cox and John Hassard
9. The New Structuralism in Organizational Theory 167
Michael Lounsbury and Marc Ventresca
Institutions and Evolutions
10. Lords of the Dance: Professionals as Institutional Agents 191
W. Richard Scott
11. Co-Evolution of Entrepreneurial Careers, Institutional Rules
and Competitive Dynamics in American Film, 1895–1920 213
Candace Jones
12. Co-Evolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition:
Investigating the Music Industry, 1877–1997 249
Marc Huygens, Charles Baden-Fuller,
Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch and Henk W. Volberda
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13. The Co-Evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational
Strategies: The Rise of Family Business Groups in the ASEAN Region 291
Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic
14. From Moby Dick to Free Willy: Macro-Cultural Discourse
and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Institutional Fields 321
Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips
15. New Practice Creation: An Institutional Perspective on Innovation 345
Michael Lounsbury and Ellen T. Crumley
16. The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face
of Power in Contested Fields 367
David Levy and Maureen Scully
17. A Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship 389
Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache
18. How Institutions Form: Loose Coupling as Mechanism in Gouldner’s
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy 413
Tim Hallett and Marc J. Ventresca
19. New Organizational Forms: Towards a Generative Dialogue 431
Ian Palmer, Jodie Benveniste and Richard Dunford
20. The Rise of Post-Bureaucracy: Theorists’ Fancy
or Organizational Praxis? 451
Phil Johnson, Geoffrey Wood, Chris Brewster and Michael Brookes
Volume II
Process and Practice Theories
21. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World 3
Karl E. Weick
22. Organizing Is Both a Verb and a Noun: Weick Meets Whitehead 19
Tore Bakken and Tor Hernes
23. The Sites of Organizations 39
Theodore R. Schatzki
24. Introduction to the Symposium on the Foundations of Organizing:
The Contribution from Garfinkel, Goffman and Sacks 61
Dalvir Samra-Fredericks and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini
25. Goffman on Organizations 85
Peter K. Manning
26. Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and Workplace Studies 109
Anne Warfield Rawls
27. Organization in Actual Episodes of Work: Harvey Sacks
and Organization Studies 143
Nick Llewellyn
28. Organs of Process: Rethinking Human Organization 175
Robert Cooper
29. Organizations as Distinction Generating and Processing Systems:
Niklas Luhmann’s Contribution to Organization Studies 205
David Seidl and Kai Helge Becker
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Discourses
30. Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through
Discourse Analysis 231
Mats Alvesson and Dan Karreman
31. Standardization, Globalization and Rationalities of Government 253
Winton Higgins and Kristina Tamm Hallström
32. Discourse Analysis in Organization Studies: The Case for
Critical Realism 273
Norman Fairclough
33. Embedded Ethics: Discourse and Power in the New South Wales
Police Service 301
Ray Gordon, Stewart Clegg and Martin Kornberger
34. On the Multi-Modality, Materiality and Contingency
of Organization Discourse 331
Rick Iedema
35. Organizational Context and the Discursive Construction
of Organizing 349
John A.A. Sillince
36. The Application of Rhetorical Theory in Managerial Research:
A Literature Review 379
E. Johanna Hartelius and Larry D. Browning
37. Meaning in Organizational Communication: Why Metaphor
Is the Cake, Not the Icing 405
Raymond Hogler, Michael A. Gross, Jackie L. Hartman
and Ann L. Cunliffe
Volume III
Organizing Time, Space and Embodiment
38. On Time, Space, and Action Nets 3
Barbara Czarniawska
39. Organizational Time: A Dialectical View 21
Miguel Pina e Cunha
40. The Temporalization of Financial Markets: From Network to Flow 47
Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda
41. The Night of the Bug: Technology, Risk and (dis)Organization
at the fin de siècle 71
David Knights, Theo Vurdubakis and Hugh Willmott
42. Place, Space and Time: Contextualizing Workplace Subjectivities 93
Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard
43. Stretching Out and Expanding Work Practices in Time and Space:
The Case of Telemedicine 115
Davide Nicolini
44. Knowing Bodies at Work: Embodiment and Ephemeral Teamwork
in Anaesthesia 145
Jon Hindmarsh and Alison Pilnick
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45. Dance-Work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance 169
Donncha Kavanagh, Carmen Kuhling
and Kieran Keohane
Organizing Identity
46. Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work 189
David L. Collinson
47. The Tyranny of the Epochal: Change, Epochalism
and Organizational Reform 209
Paul du Gay
48. Theorizing the Micro-Politics of Resistance: New Public
Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services 231
Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies
49. Cages in Tandem: Management Control, Social Identity, and
Identification in a Knowledge-Intensive Firm 255
Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson
50. Double Agents: Gendered Organizational Culture, Control
and Resistance 283
Beverley Hawkins
51. Sexuality, Power and Resistance in the Workplace 303
Peter Fleming
52. The Importance of Being ‘Indian’: Identity Centrality and Work
Outcomes in an Off-Shored Call Center in India 325
Diya Das, Ravi Dharwadkar and Pamela Brandes
53. Albert and Whetten Revisited: Strengthening the Concept
of Organizational Identity 355
David A. Whetten
54. Mobilizing Identities: Uncertainty and Control in Strategy 379
Harrison C. White, Frédéric C. Godart and Victor P. Corona
55. Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity
and Emerging Industries 401
Stewart R. Clegg, Carl Rhodes and Martin Kornberger
Volume IV
Cultures and Organizations
56. Culture and Organization Theory 3
Calvin Morrill
57. Governmentality Matters: Designing an Alliance Culture
of Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Managing Projects 31
Stewart R. Clegg, Tyrone S. Pitsis, Thekla Rura-Polley
and Marton Marosszeky
58. The Political Dynamics of Organizational Culture in an
Institutionalized Environment 53
Suzana Braga Rodrigues
Contents ix
59. In Search of Identity and Legitimation: Bridging Organizational
Culture and Neoinstitutionalism 75
Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen and Frank Dobbin
60. Hofstede’s Model of National Cultural Differences and Their
Consequences: A Triumph of Faith – A Failure of Analysis 87
Brendan McSweeney
61. D’Oh: The Simpsons, Popular Culture, and the
Organizational Carnival 115
Carl Rhodes
62. Pop (Culture) Goes the Organization: On Highbrow, Lowbrow
and Hybrids in Studying Popular Culture within
Organization Studies 133
Alf Rehn
Organization/s and/as Relations of Power
63. Reflections on Seven Ways of Creating Power 155
Mark Haugaard
64. What B Would Otherwise Do: A Critique of Conceptualizations of
‘Power’ in Organizational Theory 183
Galit Ailon
65. The Politics of Gossip and Denial in Interorganizational Relations 213
Ad van Iterson and Stewart R. Clegg
66. Metaphors of Resistance 233
Peter Fleming
67. The Fox and the Hedgehog Go to Work: A Natural History
of Workplace Collusion 251
Graham Sewell
68. Rituals and Resistance: Membership Dynamics
in Professional Fields 269
Thomas B. Lawrence
69. Circuits of Power in Practice: Strategic Ambiguity as Delegation
of Authority 295
Sally Davenport and Shirley Leitch
70. Necrocapitalism 317
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
71. From Binarism Back to Hybridity: A Postcolonial Reading
of Management and Organization Studies 343
Michal Frenkel and Yehouda Shenhav
72. Organization Studies and Epistemic Coloniality
in Latin America: Thinking Otherness from the Margins 367
Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
