The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies

Praise for the award winning First Edition: 'This handbook is organized to help teachers and students to cover the mainstream work in the field of organization studies. This is an excellent reference tool with which to study organizational theory and practice' - International Review of Administrative Sciences 'The editors have put together an impressive reference work, serious in intent and rigorous in implementation. As a publishing achievement, and a scholarly 'event' in the field, SAGE is to be congratulated. It is designed as a work of synthesis, to link past and present, general and specific' - Journal of General Management Praise for the New Edition: 'An excellent collection of papers giving a timely overview of the field' - Gareth Morgan 'In this substantially updated, revised and extended edition of the widely acclaimed Handbook, the high standard of the contributions is maintained. Close consideration is given to newly emergent, such as networks and complexity, as well as more established topics. Metaphors of conversation and discourse are engagingly invoked to make and explore new distinctions, directions and connections. It is a key reference volume for more advanced students of this rapidly developing field' - Hugh Willmott , Diageo Professor of Management Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge 'Giving the authors of the Handbook of Organization Studies the opportunity to revise and update their earlier contributions makes this handbook unique. Comparing the revised chapters to their originals offers the reader unparalleled insight into how knowledge develops in our discipline. New frameworks and deeper understandings, grounded in continuing scholarship, abound in this updated classic' - Mary Jo Hatch, C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia A decade after it first published to international acclaim, the seminal Handbook of Organization Studies has been updated to capture exciting new developments in the field. Providing a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, the Handbook continues to challenge and inspire readers with its synthesis of knowledge and literature. As ever, contributions have been selected to reflect the diversity of the field. New chapters cover areas such as organizational change; knowledge management; and organizational networks. Part One reflects on the relationship between theory, research and practice in organization studies. Part Two address a number of the most significant issues to affect organization studies such as leadership, diversity and globalization. Comprehensive and far-reaching, this important resource will set new standards for the understanding of organizational studies. It will be invaluable to researchers, teachers and advanced students alike.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: THEORIZING THE FIELD Organizational Theorizing - Michael Reed A Historically Contested Terrain Ecological Approaches to Organizations - Joel A C Baum and Andrew V Shipilov Organizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William Hesterly Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic Analysis Meso Organizational Behavior - D Brent Smith, Benjamin Schneider and Marcus W Dickson Comments on the Third Paradigm Complexity Science and Organization Studies - Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey, Laurent Mirabeau and Nail Oztas Institutions and Institutional Work - Thomas B Lawrence and Roy Suddaby Critical Theory and Postmodernism Approaches to Organizational Studies - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz From the `Woman′s′ Point of View′ Ten Years Later - Marta B Calás and Linda Smircich Towards a Feminist Organization Studies Data in Organization Studies - Ralph Stablein Making Organization Research Matter - Bent Flyvbjerg Power, Values, and Phronesis Researching Organizations Using Action Research - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham The Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational Studies - Stephen P Turner Representation and Reflexivity - Stewart Clegg and Cynthia Hardy PART TWO: EXPLORING THE ISSUES Leadership in Organizations - Ken W Parry and Alan Bryman Perspectives on Organizational Decision-Making - Susan J Miller and David C Wilson A Decision Perspective on Organizations - Margaret A Neale, Ann E Tenbrunsel, Tiffany Galvin and Max H Bazerman Social Cognition, Behavioral Decision Theory and the Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational Behaviour Diverse Identities in Organizations - Stella M Nkomo and Marcus Stewart Revisiting Metaphors of Organizational Communication - Linda L. Putnam and Suzanne Boys Beyond Contingency - Rita Gunther McGrath From Structure to Structuring in the Design of the Contemporary Organization Organizing for Innovation in the 21st Century - Deborah Dougherty The New Corporate Environmentalism and Green Politics - John Jermier, Linda Forbes, Suzanne Benn and Renato Orsato Green Politics and Critical-Reflective Organizational Systems Globalization - Barbara Parker and Stewart Clegg Emotion and Organizing - Stephen Fineman Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale Gagliardi Organizational Culture - Joanne Martin, Peter J Frost and Olivia A O′Neill Beyond Struggles for Intellectual Dominance Some Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart Clegg Networks and Organizations - Kelley A Porter and Walter W Powell The Effect of Rhetoric on Competitive Advantage: Knowledge, Rhetoric and Resource-Based Theory - John A A Sillince Radical Organizational Change - Royston Greenwood and C R Hinings Seeing Organizations Differently - Peter J Frost, Jane E Dutton, Sally Maitlis, Jacoba M Lilius, Jason M Kanov and Monica C Worline Three Lenses on Compassion