The Sage handbook of organization studies / edited by Stewart R. Clegg [and others].

Revised edition of: Handbook of organization studies / edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter R. Nord. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: THEORIZING THE FIELD : Organizational theorizing: a historically contested terrain / Michael Reed -- Ecological approaches to organizations / Joel A.C. Baum and Andrew V. Shipilov -- Organizational economics: understanding the relationship between organizations and economic analysis / Jay B. Barney and William Hesterly -- Organizational behavior: comments on the third paradigm / D. Brent Smith, Benjamin Schneider and Marcus W. Dickson -- Complexity science and organization studies / Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey, Laurent Mirabeau and Nail Oztas -- Institutions and institutional work / Thomas B Lawrence and Roy Suddaby -- Critical theory and postmodernism approaches to organizational studies / Mats Alvesson and Stanley A. Deetz -- From the ẁoman's' point of view' ten years later: towards a feminist organization studies / Marta B Calás and Linda Smircich -- Data in organization studies / Ralph Stablein -- Making organization research matter: power, values, and phronesis / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Researching organizations using action research / Colin Eden and Chris Huxham -- The philosophy of the social sciences in organizational studies / Stephen P. Turner -- Representation and reflexivity / Stewart Clegg and Cynthia Hardy -- PART TWO: EXPLORING THE ISSUES : Leadership in organizations / Ken W. Parry and Alan Bryman -- Perspectives on organizational decision-making / Susan J. Miller and David C. Wilson -- A decision perspective on organizations: social cognition, behavioral decision theory and the psychological links to micro- and macro-organizational behaviour / Margaret A. Neale, Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Tiffany Galvin and Max H. Bazerman -- Diverse identities in organizations / Stella M. Nkomo and Marcus M. Stewart -- Revisiting metaphors of organizational communication / Linda L. Putnam and Suzanne Boys -- Beyond contingency: from structure to structuring in the design of the contemporary organization / Rita Gunther McGrath -- Organizing for innovation in the 21st century / Deborah Dougherty -- The new corporate environmentalism and green politics / John M. Jermier, Linda C. Forbes, Suzanne Benn and Renato J. Orsato -- Globalization / Barbara Parker and Stewart Clegg -- Emotion and organizing / Stephen Fineman -- Exploring the aesthetic side of organizational life / Pasquale Gagliardi -- Organizational culture: beyond struggles for intellectual dominance / Joanne Martin, Peter J. Frost and Olivia A. O'Neill -- Some dare call it power / Cynthia Hardy and Stewart Clegg -- Networks and organizations / Kelley A. Porter and Walter W. Powell -- The effect of rhetoric on competitive advantage: knowledge, rhetoric and resource-based theory / John A.A. Sillince -- Radical organizational change / Royston Greenwood and C.R. (Bob) Hinings -- Seeing organizations differently: three lenses on compassion / Peter J. Frost, Jane E. Dutton, Sally Maitlis, Jacoba M. Lilius, Jason M. Kanov and Monica C. Worline.

This handbook provides an overview of the current state of the discipline and its future possibilities. Presenting a balance between the established mainstream and newer concerns and approaches, it reflects the diversity and dynamism of the field.