Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets
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Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets

About this book

Organizations are central actors of modern society. No understanding of our world is complete without a theory of how they work. This insight is grounded in the foundational texts of classical social theory, and it remains as true as ever today. Be they multinational corporations or start-up firms, established political parties or insurgent social movements, successful organizations must engage in power-projects. Such is the overarching argument of this volume, a collection of papers by many of the world's leading social scientists and organizational scholars. Many contributions analyze empirical data to generate cutting-edge arguments about the actual working of organizations, institutions, and markets. Other papers represent original theoretical arguments that propose new ways to see and study power. Topics addressed include the nature of post-bureaucratic (polyarchic) organizations, strategic action within fields, identity and contentious politics, and emergent forms of resistance. Collectively, the papers that comprise this volume set a fresh agenda for the study of power in and across organizations and institutions.

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Table of contents

  1. FRONT COVER
  2. RETHINKING POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND MARKETS
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. CONTENTS
  5. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  6. ADVISORY BOARD
  7. RETHINKING POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND MARKETS: CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVES, CURRENT RESEARCH, AND THE FUTURE AGENDA
  8. RESEARCHING ORGANIZATIONAL ELITES: A CRITICAL REALIST PERSPECTIVE
  9. THE POLYARCHIC BUREAUCRACY: COOPERATIVE RESISTANCE IN THE WORKPLACE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS
  10. THE LIMIT OF BUREAUCRATIC POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF THE CHINESE BUREAUCRACY
  11. MURKY POWER: ā€˜ā€˜THINK TANKSā€™ā€™ AS BOUNDARY ORGANIZATIONS
  12. LABORING FOR THE MAN: AUGMENTING AUTHORITY IN A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION
  13. CONCEPTUALIZING POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS
  14. DOMINANT IDEOLOGICAL MODES OF RATIONALITY: ORGANIZATIONS AS ARENAS OF STRUGGLE OVER MEMBERSā€™ CATEGORIZATION DEVICES
  15. SCENES FROM A POWER STRUGGLE: THE RISE OF RETAIL INVESTORS IN THE US STOCK MARKET
  16. TARGETING ORGANIZATIONS: PRIVATE AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS
  17. A POLITICALā€“CULTURAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF STRATEGIC ACTION