Rethinking organization new directions in organization theory and analysis
edited by Michael Reed and Michael Hughes.
- London New York Sage Publications 1992.
- viii, 309 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.