Towards a New Theory of Organizations

摘要: This collection was inspired by the idea of reassessing importance David Silverman's "Theory Organizations". The 12 essays contained here explore, in varied ways, impact and current status ideas how they relate to future directions organization theory. volume opens with a chapter Silverman himself. Subsequent chapters investigate key issues study organizations, including structure agency, politics theory meanings post-positivist organizational analysis. Contemporary debates on postmodernism, emotions, gender structuration are discussed context development last 25 years. Providing insights into continuities within orgnizational provoking thought about directions, this should be interest advanced undergraduates academics sociology behaviour, management, industrial relations social editors' other works include: "Sociology Organisation Theory" Hassard (CUP, 1993); "Postmodernism Organisation".