For Formal Organization

The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvPaul du Gay,Signe Vikkelsø,Copenhagen Business School and Academic Director of the CBS Public Private Platform) du Gay, Paul (Professor at Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and Academic Director of the CBS Public Private Platform, Professor at Department of Organization,Copenhagen Business School) Vikkelsø, Signe (Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Professor at the Department of Organization,Paul Du Gay,Signe Vikkelso

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This book focuses on the state of Organization Theory, its purpose, object, and practical relevance. In recent years, disquiet has mounted within the field of organizational analysis, broadly defined, about the overly theoretical and a-or anti-organizational state of Organization Theory and its consequent lack of practical purchase, not least in the light of pressing economic, social and political concerns that are often profoundly organizational in nature. The book argues that predominant contemporary modes of theorising within the field, and in particular the stance associated with them, have had the effect of occluding and dissolving Organization Theory's core object - formal organization - and, as a consequence, dissipating its practical focus and reach. The book seeks to contribute to the goal of reviving Organization Theory as a practical science of organizing and rehabilitating its core object -formal organization - through a re-examination and re-assessment of the outlook, comportment and attitude - stance - animating its classical antecedents. This ambition is double edged. For not only does it seek to revive Organization Theory through reconnecting it with the practical orientation framing classical organizational analysis, it also seeks to indicate how the historic products of that orientation or stance still have considerable traction for analysing and intervening in contemporary matters of organizational concern. Not least, this 'classical organizational stance' provides those who adopt it with a method with which to orient themselves both in formal organizational thought and in formal organizational life. It furnishes them with an ethos combining both practical rationality and ethical seriousness. In this sense the book suggest itself both as a guide to doing Organizational analysis and doing practical organization

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-11-24
Mått160 x 241 x 17 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198705123

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Paul du Gay has published extensively in sociology, cultural studies, public management and organization studies. He is the author inter alia of Consumption and Identity at Work and In Praise of Bureaucracy. His recent publications include New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics (ed. with G. Morgan, OUP) and The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (with P. Adler, G. Morgan, and M. Reed eds., OUP). At CBS he is Academic Director of the School's Public Private Platform and leads the Velux Foundation project 'Office as a Vocation'.Signe Vikkelsø's research focuses on organizational analysis and the organizing effects of tools and techniques in work practices and human relations. Drawing upon cases from healthcare, psychoanalysis, and industrial production she has published in sociology of science and technology, psychology, CSCW and organization studies. Her recent publications include a comprehensive Handbook in Classic and Modern Organization Theory (ed. with P. Kjær, Hans Reitzels Forlag). At CBS she is head of the Department of Organization, and member of the Research, Innovation and Organization Cluster.

Introduction1: The Idea of a 'Classical Stance' in Organization Theory2: 'Outside Organization': the idea of a 'metaphysical stance' in Organization Theory3: Metaphysical Speculation in Organizational Theorising: on the lost specification of 'Change'4: Metaphysical Speculation in Organizational Theorising: on the expressivism of 'Exploration'5: Task and Purpose as (continuing) core concerns6: Authority and AuthorisationConclusion: Comportment and Character in Formal Organization and its Analysis

this is an important book which pursues its thesis with passion, erudition and lucidity, seeking to restore formal organization as the proper object of our discipline and the guiding principle for organizational action. It demands to be read attentively and is the kind of monograph that restores one's faith in the willingness of some scholars today to engage with the big questions facing the discipline. It especially demands to be taken seriously as an attempt to restore formal organization as a defence against arbitrary executive power, hype and pseudo-charisma.

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