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Subject(s)

• Organization [Browse]
• Management [Browse]

Editor

• Tsoukas, Haridimos [Browse]
• Knudsen, Christian, 1951- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

The central question explored in this work is the epistemological status of organization theory as a policy science. By drawing attention to organization theory as a practical social activity, the handbook reviews and evaluates important epistemological developments in the discipline.

Notes

Originally published: 2003.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Scholarly & Professional Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction: The need for meta-theoretical reflection in organizational theory / Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen
• Organization theory as a positive science / Lex Donaldson
• Organization theory as an interpretive science / Mary Jo Hatch, Dvora Yanow
• Organization theory as a critical science? Forms of analysis and 'new organizational forms' / Hugh Willmott
• Organization theory as a postmodern science / Robert Chia
• The origins of organization theory / William H. Starbuck
• The historical and epistemological foundations of organization theory : fusing sociological theory with engineering discourse / Yehouda Shenhav
• Feminist theory and organization theory : a dialogue on new bases / Silvia Gherardi
• The styles and the stylists of organization theory / Barbara Czarniawska
• Pluralism, scientific progress, and the structure of organization theory / Christian Knudsen
• The agency/structure dilemma in organization theory : open doors and brick walls / Michael Reed
• Modes of explanation in organization theory / Andreas Georg Scherer
• Micro and macro perspectives in organization theory : a tale of incommensurability / William McKinley, Mark A. Mone
• Economic versus sociological approaches to organization theory / Richard Swedberg
• Meta-theoretical controversies in studying organizational culture / Joanne Martin
• Actionable knowledge / Chris Argyris
• Theory and practice in the real world / Karl E. Weick
• Organization theory and ethics : varieties and dynamics of constrained optimization / Richard P. Nielsen
• Character and virtue in an era of turbulent capitalism / Iain Mangham
• The future of organization theory : prospects and limitations / Gibson Burrell
• Managing organization futures in a changing world of power/knowledge / Stewart Clegg
• The future of organization studies : beyond the selection-adaptation debate / Arie Y. Lewin, Henk W. Volberda
• At home from Mars to Somalia : recounting organizational studies / Marta B. Calas, Linda Skirmish
• New times, fresh challenges : reflections of the past and the future of organization theory / Haridimos Tsoukas.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of organization theory
• Organization theory

ISBN

• 9780191577222
• 0191577227

LCCN

2002035573

International Article Number

• 9780199275250

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