Rethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis

Abstract

Introduction - Michael Reed DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY Incommensurable Paradigms? Vital Signs From Three Perspectives - Howard E Aldrich The Symbolic Understanding of Organizations - Barry A Turner Organization Studies and Scientific Authority - Colin Brown Putting Theory in its Place - Nick Perry The Social Organization of Organizational Theorizing Paradigms Lost - Stephen Ackroyd Paradise Regained? CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS The Social Construction of Organizations and Markets - Richard Whitley Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes Changing Organizational Forms - Mark Wardell From the Bottom Up Back to the Future - Gibson Burrell Time and Organization The Transformation in Work - Alan Whitaker Post-Fordism Revisited EMERGENT PROBLEMATICS Organization Theory in the Postmodern Era - Kenneth J Gergen Re-Writing Gender into Organizational Theorizing - Marta B Cal[ac]as and Linda Smircich Directions from Feminist Perspectives Formal Organization as Representation - Robert Cooper Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation Formative Contexts and Activity Systems - Frank Blackler Postmodern Approaches to the Management of Change CONCLUSION Decluding Organization - Michael Hughes