Paul Adler and colleagues have recently published a handbook that may be of interest to OOW members. Additionally, an earlier handbook edited by Adler is now available in paperback. Both handbooks are listed below:
- The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents, edited by Paul S. Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Michael Reed
- The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations, edited by Paul S. Adler
The table of contents for each handbook can be found below:
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL THEORY, AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES: CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS
Edited by Paul S. Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Michael Reed
Introduction: Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies, continuing entanglements, Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed
European Influences: French and German Sociology and Social Theory
- Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller
- Bourdieu and organizational theory: A ghostly apparition?, Barbara Townley
- The Making of a Paradigm: Exploring the Potential of the Economy of Convention and Pragmatic Sociology of Critique, Alan Scott and Pier Paolo Pasqualino
- Bruno Latour: An Accidental Organization Theorist, Barbara Czarniawska
- A Theory of ‘Agencing’: on Michel Callon’s Contribution to Organizational Knowledge and Practice, Franck Cochoy
- Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorist, David Seidl and Hannah Mormann
- Jurgen Habermas and Organization Studies – Contributions and Future Prospects,Andreas Rasche and Andreas Georg Scherer
- Bhaskar and Critical Realism, Steve Fleetwood
- The Comparative Analysis of Capitalism and the Study of Organizations, Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull Kristensen
Anglo-American Influences: American and British Sociology and Social Theory
- C. Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power, Edward Barratt
- Organizational Analysis: Goffman and Dramaturgy, Peter K. Manning
- Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology, Nick Llewellyn
- Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations, Peter Abell
- Clifford Geertz and the Interpretation of Organizations, Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Jennifer E. Dodge, and Stephen K. Jackson
- Risk, Social Theories and Organizations, Michael Power
- Arlie Hochschild, Emotion And Affect, Stephen Smith
- Discourse and Communication, Timothy R. Kuhn and Linda L. Putnam
- The Second Time Farce: Business School Ethicists and the Emergence of Bastard Rawlsianism, Richard Marens
- Hayek and Organizational Studies, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
- Social Movement Theory and Organization Studies, Klaus Weber and Brayden King
- What’s new in the ‘new, new economic sociology’ and should Organization Studies care?, Liz McFall and Jose Ossandon
- Critical Theory and Organization Studies, Edward Granter
- British Industrial Sociology and Organization Studies: A Distinctive Contribution,Stephen Ackroyd
- Anthony Giddens and Structuration Theory, Alistair Mutch
- Engendering the Organizational: Feminist Theorizing and Organization Studies, Marta B. Calas and Linda Smircich
- Organizational Studies and the Subjects of Imperialism, Raza Mir and Ali Mir
- Space and Organization Studies, Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale
Organizing Social Worlds: Sociology, Organization Studies and the ‘social’
- Organization Studies, Sociology and the Quest for a Public Organization Theory, Andre Spicer
- What Makes Organization? Organizational Theory as a ‘Practical Science’, Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelso
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES: CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS
Edited by Paul S. Adler
Part I: The Role of the Classics
- Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost, Paul Adler
- The Value of the Classics, Patricia H. Thornton
Part II: European Perspectives
- Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory, Richard Swedburg
- Marx and Organization Studies Today, Paul Adler
- It’s Not Just for Communists any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory, Richard Marens
- Weber:Sintering the Iron Cage: Translation, Domination, and Rationality, Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury
- Max Weber and the Ethics of Office, Paul du Gay
- On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in 21st Century, Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt
- How Durkheim’s Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology, Frank Dobbin
- A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization, Paul Hirsch, Peer Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green
- Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory, Barbara Czarniawska
- Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization, Alan Scott
- Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel’s Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
- Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship, Markus C. Becker and Thorbjorn Knudsen
- Norbert Elias’s Impact on Organization Studies, Ad van Iterson
Part III: American Perspectives
- Thorstein Veblen and the Organization of the Capitalist Economy, Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic
- The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois, Stella M. Nkomo
- Organizations and the Chicago School, Andrew Abbott
- After James on Identity, Arne Carlsen
- Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine, Michael D. Cohen
- Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization, Christopher Ansell
- Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism, Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine
- John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies, Andrew Van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz
- The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization, Elisabeth S. Clemens
- Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies, Michael Reed
- The Columbia School and the Study of Organizations: Why Organizations Have Lives of Their Own, Heather Haveman
- Parsons as an Organization Theorist, Charles Heckscher
Part IV: Afterword
- Afterword: Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations, Gerald Davis and Mayer N. Zald
Organizations, Occupations and Work 