Table of Contents

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy
PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSIS
Organizational Theorizing - Michael Reed
An Historically Contested Terrain
The Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory - Lex Donaldson
Organizational Ecology - Joel A C Baum
Organizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William Hesterly
Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic Analysis
The Individual in Organizational Studies - Walter R Nord and Suzy Fox
The Great Disappearing Act?
The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory - Pamela S Tolbert and Lynne G Zucker
Critical Theory and Postmodernism - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz
Approaches to Organizational Studies
From the `Woman′s′ Point of View - Maria B Cal[ac]as and Linda Smircich
Feminist Approaches to Organization Studies
PART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE
Data in Organizational Studies - Ralph Stablein
Action Research for the Study of Organizations - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham
Emotion and Organizing - Stephen Fineman
Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale Gagliardi
Images of Time in Work and Organization - John Hassard
The Organizational Culture War Games - Joanne Martin and Peter Frost
A Struggle for Intellectual Dominance
Some Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart R Clegg
Normal Science, Paradigms, Metaphors, Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis - Gibson Burrell
The Owl of Minerva - Richard Marsden and Barbara Townley
Reflections on Theory in Practice
Representations - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy

About the Author

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).

Reviews

`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