The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies Classical Foundations

Part I: The Role of the Classics; 1: Paul Adler: Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost; 2: Patricia H. Thornton: The Value of the Classics; Part II: European Perspectives; 3: Richard Swedburg: Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory; 4: Paul Adler: Marx and Organization Studies Today; 5: Richard Marens: It's Not Just for Communists any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory; 6: Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury: Weber:Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality; 7: Paul du Gay: Max Weber and the Ethics of Office; 8: Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt: On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in 21st Century; 9: Frank Dobbin: How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology; 10: Paul Hirsch, Peer Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green: A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization; 11: Barbara Czarniawska: Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory; 12: Alan Scott: Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization; 13: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana: Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior; 14: Markus C. Becker and Thorbj°rn Knudsen: Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship; 15: Ad van Iterson: Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies; Part III: American Perspectives; 16: Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic: Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy; 17: Stella M. Nkomo: The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois; 18: Andrew Abbott: Organizations and the Chicago School; 19: Arne Carlsen: After James on Identity; 20: Michael D. Cohen: Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine; 21: Christopher Ansell: Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization; 22: Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine: Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism; 23: Andrew Van de Ven and Arik

Review from previous edition In sum, editor Paul Adler has assembled a talented band of scholars who provide more than ample justification for the continuing value of theory-driven research, reminding us to continue to learn from and build on the foundations erected by the classical scholars but also to recognize the potential benefits to be gained from exploring the paths not taken s W. R. Scott, Stanford University