The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies

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). Management professor Walt Nord studies organization theory and behavior and is currently researching the topic in a political/economic context. The author of numerous books, textbooks, and scholarly articles, his newest book will offer a new philosophical framework for organization studies, seeking to overcome current polarizing debates by developing an improved philosophical perspective for organization studies.As an author, Nord received the George Terry Award in 1997 for co-editing the Handbook of Organization Studies, an annual award from the Academy of Management that is bestowed to a book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the field. The same academy named Nord a Distinguished University Professor in 2002 (USF named him Distinguished University Professor in 2003); these honors recognize significant contributions to the science and practice of management.Nord earned a BA in economics from Williams College, an MS in organizational behavior from Cornell University, and a PhD in social psychology from Washington University. Before joining USF in 1989, he taught at Tulane University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of British Columbia, and Washington University. He is an editor or reviewer for numerous academic journals.

• PART ONE: THEORIZING THE FIELDOrganizational Theorizing - Michael ReedA Historically Contested TerrainEcological Approaches to Organizations - Joel A C Baum and Andrew V ShipilovOrganizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William HesterlyUnderstanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic AnalysisMeso Organizational Behavior - D Brent Smith, Benjamin Schneider and Marcus W DicksonComments on the Third ParadigmComplexity Science and Organization Studies - Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey, Laurent Mirabeau and Nail OztasInstitutions and Institutional Work - Thomas B Lawrence and Roy SuddabyCritical Theory and Postmodernism Approaches to Organizational Studies - Mats Alvesson and Stanley DeetzFrom the `Woman′s′ Point of View′ Ten Years Later - Marta B Calás and Linda Smircich Towards a Feminist Organization StudiesData in Organization Studies - Ralph StableinMaking Organization Research Matter - Bent FlyvbjergPower, Values, and PhronesisResearching Organizations Using Action Research - Colin Eden and Chris HuxhamThe Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational Studies - Stephen P TurnerRepresentation and Reflexivity - Stewart Clegg and Cynthia HardyPART TWO: EXPLORING THE ISSUESLeadership in Organizations - Ken W Parry and Alan BrymanPerspectives on Organizational Decision-Making - Susan J Miller and David C WilsonA Decision Perspective on Organizations - Margaret A Neale, Ann E Tenbrunsel, Tiffany Galvin and Max H BazermanSocial Cognition, Behavioral Decision Theory and the Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational BehaviourDiverse Identities in Organizations - Stella M Nkomo and Marcus StewartRevisiting Metaphors of Organizational Communication - Linda L. Putnam and Suzanne BoysBeyond Contingency - Rita Gunther McGrathFrom Structure to Structuring in the Design of the Contemporary OrganizationOrganizing for Innovation in the 21st Century - Deborah DoughertyThe New Corporate Environmentalism and Green Politics - John Jermier, Linda Forbes, Suzanne Benn and Renato OrsatoGreen Politics and Critical-Reflective Organizational SystemsGlobalization - Barbara Parker and Stewart CleggEmotion and Organizing - Stephen FinemanExploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale GagliardiOrganizational Culture - Joanne Martin, Peter J Frost and Olivia A O′NeillBeyond Struggles for Intellectual DominanceSome Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart CleggNetworks and Organizations - Kelley A Porter and Walter W PowellThe Effect of Rhetoric on Competitive Advantage: Knowledge, Rhetoric and Resource-Based Theory - John A A SillinceRadical Organizational Change - Royston Greenwood and C R HiningsSeeing Organizations Differently - Peter J Frost, Jane E Dutton, Sally Maitlis, Jacoba M Lilius, Jason M Kanov and Monica C WorlineThree Lenses on Compassion

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 ManagementPraise 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