Where we argue that organizing is a set of social activities through which we try to make our
lives more predictable, effective and stress-free. Yet, organizing is itself far from an orderly …

This book approaches markets as a dynamic ensemble of institutions; and as a set of rules
or norms, that contribute to the evolution of social systems of governance, and can be …

Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when
people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and …

" While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the
biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book …

1. Why We Came to Write This Paper What do we owe the past? If we owe anything, how
should we acknowledge our debts to the writers on whose works we build, and should we …

This paper examines the emerging contours of a new organizational form, in which firms
move beyond the cooperative pacts of alliances to a radicalized, aggressive co-optation of …

The markets and hierarchies paradigm holds out the promise of a general theory of the
conditions under which organizations come into existence. This paper argues that the two …

While scholars have provided increasingly well-developed theoretical frameworks for
understanding the role of institutional entrepreneurs and other purposeful actors in bringing …

I enjoyed reading Martin Parker's paper, but what he has written about is, I fear, Martin
Parker, creating the image of the'Angry Young Man of Organization Theory'. As the paper is …

What explains the dramatic technical and social changes observed in much of the world
during the past century? Responses to this kind of question vary, depending on the degree …