Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures(Social Networks, Organizations and Markets series)

This insightful book theorizes the contrast between two logics of organization: bureaucracy and collegiality. Based on this theory and employing a new methodology to transform our sociological understanding, Emmanuel Lazega sheds light on complex organizational phenomena that impact markets, political economy, and social stratification. Lazega focuses on how organizations use and combine logics of bureaucracy and collegiality, deploying and developing the analysis of multilevel networks to explore how these logics coalesce and interact in organizational settings and stratigraphies. Revisiting sociological knowledge on various phenomena, such as coopetition in science, markets and government, the creation of new institutions in political economy and elite self-segregation, this book advances our perception of the changes introduced in the contemporary 'science of organizations' by the digitalization of society. Offering new theoretical insights into organizations, this book is crucial for sociologists of organizations and management scholars, as well as postgraduate students, in search of an innovative understanding of the trajectories of contemporary organizations. The analysis of multilevel networks will also benefit practitioners and analysts working in the field.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. Introduction PART I A STRATIGRAPHIC AND MULTILEVEL NETWORK APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONS 2. Bureaucracy and collegiality co-constituting organizations as multilevel settings 3. Combined bureaucracy and collegiality in co-constitution of organizations and their environment PART II EXPLORATORY APPLICATIONS OF STRATIGRAPHIC AND MULTILEVEL NETWORK APPROACHES 4. Government by relationships: policy, collegial oligarchies of insiders, and institutions of the political economy 5. Revisiting the role of organizations in generating social inequalities and stratification 6. Inside-out collegiality: new bureaucratic parameterizations of commons through digitalization 7. Conclusion References Index

About the Author :
Emmanuel Lazega, Department of Sociology, Sciences Po, CSO-CNRS, IUF, France

Review :
‘This book is full of ideas useful to organizational sociologists and management scholars.’ ‘The text provides a fascinating and insightful look into the complexity of organizations.’ ‘Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change is a remarkable synthesis of research associated to the latest achievements of the anthropological and sociological social networks and relational data knowledge. However, first and foremost the book is a lucid vision of the sensitivity of relational data, of the necessity to regulate private exclusive access to data, social engineering and defend a public and democratic national state and international power to guarantee and enforce the principles of open science and safeguard the autonomy of social sciences and their right to investigate, to critique and to tell the truth to power from unsubordinated, autonomous positions. These crucial ideas, which are also well-founded warnings, are convincingly based on a serious and impressive social networks and relational data knowledge.’