Debating Organization
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Debating Organization

Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies

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Debating Organization

Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780631216926
eBook ISBN
9781405142113
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Comportamento organizzativo
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. List of Figures
  2. Notes on the Contributors
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 The Discourse of Organization Studies: Dissensus, Politics, and Paradigms
  5. PART I Foundations
  6. 2 Organization Studies: Discipline or Field?
  7. COMMENTARY: WHAT KIND OF SCIENCE SHOULD ORGANIZATION STUDIES STRIVE TO BE?
  8. 2a From Fields to Science: Can Organization Studies make the Transition?
  9. 2b Paradigm Plurality: Exploring Past, Present, and Future Trends
  10. 3 Ontology
  11. COMMENTARY: LET’S GET ONTOLOGICAL
  12. 3a Order is Free: On the Ontological Status of Organizations
  13. 3b Ontology: Organization as “World-making”
  14. 4 Epistemology
  15. COMMENTARY: ON BEING POSITIVIST AND BECOMING CONSTRUCTIVIST
  16. 4a Position Statement for Positivism
  17. 4b Social Constructionism and Organization Studies
  18. 5 Methodology
  19. COMMENTARY: IRONIC AUTHENTICITY AND PARADOXICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
  20. 5a From Subjectivity to Objectivity: A Constructivist Account of Objectivity in Organization Theory
  21. 5b From Objectivity to Subjectivity: Pursuing Subjective Authenticity in Organizational Research
  22. PART II Frames
  23. 6 Organization – Environment
  24. COMMENTARY: ENACTING/INSTITUTIONALIZING
  25. 6a Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing
  26. 6b Constructing the Iron Cage: Institutional Theory and Enactment
  27. 7 Power and Institutions
  28. COMMENTARY: THE DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONS
  29. 7a The Problem of Order Revisited: Towards a more Critical Institutional Perspective
  30. 7b Discourse or Institution? Institutional Theory and the Challenge of Critical Discourse Analysis
  31. 8 Globalization
  32. COMMENTARY: THE POLITICS OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN GLOBALIZATION
  33. 8a The Disorganization of Inclusion: Globalization as Process
  34. 8b Globalization and the Organization(s) of Exclusion in Advanced Capitalism
  35. PART III Structure and Culture
  36. 9 Structure
  37. COMMENTARY: ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
  38. 9a Organization
  39. 9b Disorganization
  40. 10 Culture
  41. COMMENTARY: MAKING SENSE OF CULTURE
  42. 10a The Case for Culture
  43. 10b Instantiative versus Entitative Culture: The Case for Culture as Process
  44. PART IV Identity and Relationships
  45. 11 Gender and Identity
  46. COMMENTARY: NONDEBATING GENDER
  47. Theorizing Gender and Organizing
  48. 12 Trust
  49. COMMENTARY: ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOSIS VERSUS THE VIRTUES OF TRUST
  50. 12a The Virtues of Prudent Trust
  51. 12b “Fool’d with Hope, Men favour the Deceit,” or, Can we Trust in Trust?
  52. 13 Question Time: Notes on Altercation
  53. Index