Current cross-national organisational theory remains tied to stark polarisation between
convergence and divergence, universal and relative, frames of analysis. Attempts at …

The widely discussed 'globalization'of economic activities has given rise to a renewed
interest in the relations between such tendencies, the nature and demarcation of societies …

This article is coQcemed to describe and advocate a genuine sociology of organisational
structure, to trace its major elements in the work of Weber and Marx and its re-emergence in …

Annotation. The last twenty-five years of the twentieth century was a period of extraordinary
change in organizations and the economies of the developed world. This continues today …

The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in
explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of …

Of all the great changes involved in restructuring the world today, the single most important
force may prove to be globalisation. A market-driven and multidimensional process …

Whatever happened to human agency in organizational analysis? Although never entirely
disavowed or forgotten, there has been a tendency to marginalize the presence and …

Cross-national comparative research on organization and human resources usually follows
one of two major approaches: institutionalist or culturalist. In Section 2 we explain in which …

Organizations are spaces and places of work. In this introductory essay to the Special Issue
of Organization Studies dedicated to 'Worlds of Work', we lay out our vision for placing the …

From the outset, attention to the embeddedness of organizations in wider societal contexts
has been a trademark of the new institutionalism in organizational analysis. Different strands …