Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies

• 1: Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed: Introduction: Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies, continuing entanglements


• European Influences: French and German Sociology and Social Theory


• 2: Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller: Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives


• 3: Barbara Townley: Bourdieu and organizational theory: A ghostly apparition?


• 4: Alan Scott and Pier Paolo Pasqualino: The Making of a Paradigm: Exploring the Potential of the Economy of Convention and Pragmatic Sociology of Critique


• 5: Barbara Czarniawska: Bruno Latour: An Accidental Organization Theorist


• 6: Franck Cochoy: A Theory of 'Agencing': on Michel Callon's Contribution to Organizational Knowledge and Practice


• 7: David Seidl and Hannah Mormann: Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorist


• 8: Andreas Rasche and Andreas Georg Scherer: Jürgen Habermas and Organization Studies - Contributions and Future Prospects


• 9: Steve Fleetwood: Bhaskar and Critical Realism


• 10: Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull Kristensen: The Comparative Analysis of Capitalism and the Study of Organizations


• Anglo-American Influences: American and British Sociology and Social Theory


• 11: Edward Barratt: C. Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power


• 12: Peter K. Manning: Organizational Analysis: Goffman and Dramaturgy


• 13: Nick Llewellyn: Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology


• 14: Peter Abell: Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations


• 15: Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Jennifer E. Dodge, and Stephen K. Jackson: Clifford Geertz and the Interpretation of Organizations


• 16: Michael Power: Risk, Social Theories and Organizations


• 17: Stephen Smith: Arlie Hochschild, Emotion And Affect


• 18: Timothy R. Kuhn and Linda L. Putnam: Discourse and Communication

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where he holds the Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. Prof. Adler received his doctorate in Economics and Management there while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. At the Academy of Management, he has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group, as a representative-at-large on the Board of Governors, and he currently serves as the Academy's Vice-President and program chair.



Paul du Gay is Professor of Organization Studies in the Department of Organization (IOA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). His work is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His publications include Consumption and Identity at Work, In Praise of Bureaucracy, and Organizing Identity. At CBS, he directs the Velux research programme, What Makes Organization?, and co-directs the Business in Society Public-Private Platform.


Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research focuses on different forms of capitalism, the impact of globalization and neo-liberalism, and the changing nature of firms and organizations. From 2005-2008, he was Editor in Chief of the journal Organization: The Critical Journal of Theory, Organization and Society. Recent edited books include Capitalism and Capitalisms in the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2012; edited with R. Whitley) and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (OUP 2010; edited with J.L. Campbell, C. Crouch, O.K. Pedersen and R. Whitley).


Professor Michael Reed is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource

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