This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop.
It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other …

The study of organizations is rife with competing vocabularies and perspectives. Taking a
specific and traditional focus-organizational structure-the authors argue for a more unified …

This paper advances a relational sociology of organization that seeks to address concerns
over how organizational action is understood and situated. The approach outlined here is …

In the late 1970s, neoinstitutional and organizational culture theorists challenged prevailing
rationalist organizational paradigms by introducing social constructionism to the field of …

The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory.
Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a …

A dialectical approach to the study of organizations is proposed and contrasted to
conventional approaches. Established perspectives fail to deal with the production of …

This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization-environment coevolution that
generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm …

We argue that this paradox is, at least in part, the result of a long-standing tension in
sociology between more materialist, interestdriven explanations of behavior and ideational …

This book offers a critique of recent developments in the study of organizational structure in
the USA. There has been a profusion of new paradigms offered in the USA and this has …