Studying Organization

Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney. Cynthia Hardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Management, McGill University. Her publications include Strategies for Retrenchment and Turnaround: The Politics of Survival (De Gruyter, 1990) and Managing Organizational Closure (Gower, 1985).

• Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia HardyPART ONE: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSISOrganizational Theorizing - Michael ReedAn Historically Contested TerrainThe Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory - Lex DonaldsonOrganizational Ecology - Joel A C BaumOrganizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William HesterlyUnderstanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic AnalysisThe Individual in Organizational Studies - Walter R Nord and Suzy FoxThe Great Disappearing Act?The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory - Pamela S Tolbert and Lynne G ZuckerCritical Theory and Postmodernism - Mats Alvesson and Stanley DeetzApproaches to Organizational StudiesFrom the `Woman′s′ Point of View - Maria B Cal[ac]as and Linda SmircichFeminist Approaches to Organization StudiesPART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICEData in Organizational Studies - Ralph StableinAction Research for the Study of Organizations - Colin Eden and Chris HuxhamEmotion and Organizing - Stephen FinemanExploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale GagliardiImages of Time in Work and Organization - John HassardThe Organizational Culture War Games - Joanne Martin and Peter FrostA Struggle for Intellectual DominanceSome Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart R CleggNormal Science, Paradigms, Metaphors, Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis - Gibson BurrellThe Owl of Minerva - Richard Marsden and Barbara TownleyReflections on Theory in PracticeRepresentations - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy

`The book should have a place on the shelves of every institution purporting to teach management. The studies contained in the book each require considerable critical reflection, and are aimed at those with a deep interest in organization theory rather than the student concerned to obtain the minimum knowledge required to pass a professional examination in the subject. The specialists will refer to this book again and again′ - British Journal of Administrative Management