Table of Contents

Part I: The Role of the Classics
1: Paul Adler: Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost
2: Patricia H. Thornton: The Value of the Classics
Part II: European Perspectives
3: Richard Swedburg: Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory
4: Paul Adler: Marx and Organization Studies Today
5: Richard Marens: It's Not Just for Communists any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory
6: Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury: Weber:Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality
7: Paul du Gay: Max Weber and the Ethics of Office
8: Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt: On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in 21st Century
9: Frank Dobbin: How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology
10: Paul Hirsch, Peer Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green: A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization
11: Barbara Czarniawska: Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory
12: Alan Scott: Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization
13: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana: Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior
14: Markus C. Becker and Thorbjørn Knudsen: Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship
15: Ad van Iterson: Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies
Part III: American Perspectives
16: Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic: Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy
17: Stella M. Nkomo: The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois
18: Andrew Abbott: Organizations and the Chicago School
19: Arne Carlsen: After James on Identity
20: Michael D. Cohen: Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine
21: Christopher Ansell: Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization
22: Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine: Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism
23: Andrew Van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz: John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies
24: Elisabeth S. Clemens: The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization
25: Michael Reed: Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies
26: Heather Haveman: The Columbia School and the Study of Organizations: Why Organizations Have Lives of Their Own
27: Charles Heckscher: Parsons as an Organization Theorist
Part IV: Afterword
28: Gerald Davis and Mayer N. Zald: Afterword: Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations

About the Author

Professor Adler began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974. He received his doctorate in economics and management there while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. His research and teaching focus on organization theory and
design, strategic management and human resource management in R&D, engineering, software, healthcare, and manufacturing operations. He has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management
Division and the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and he has published widely in academic and managerial journals both in the U.S. and overseas. His most recent book was The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (OUP, 2006).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition In sum, editor Paul Adler has assembled a talented band of scholars who provide more than ample justification for the continuing value of theory-driven research, reminding us to continue to learn from and build on the foundations erected by the classical scholars but also to recognize the potential benefits to be gained from exploring the paths not taken'
W. R. Scott, Stanford University