CONTENTS Contributors ... ⅷ Preface ... xxi Introduction Organizations, Organization and Organizing / Stewart R. Clegg ; Cynthia hardy ... 1 Part One. FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSIS ... 29 1.1 Organizational Theorizing a Historically Contested Terrain / Michael Reed ... 31 1.2 The Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory / Lex Donaldson ... 57 1.3 Organizational Ecology / Joel A. C. Baum ... 77 1.4 Organizational Economics : Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and economic Analysis / Jay B. Barney ; William Hesterly ... 115 1.5 The Individual in Organizational Studies : the Great Disappearing Act? / Walter R. Nord ; Suzy Fox ... 148 1.6 The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory / Pamela S. Tolbert ; Lynne G. Zucker ... 175 1.7 Critical Theory and Postmodernism Approaches to Organizational Studies / Mats Alvesson ; Stanley Deetz ... 191 1.8 From "The Woman's' Point of View : Feminist Approaches to Organization Studies / Marta B. Cal<?import namespace ... m ur Part Two. CURRENT ISSUES IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES ... 259 2.1 Creative Deconstruction : Strategy and Organizations / Richard Whipp ... 261 2.2 Leadership in Organizations / Alan Bryman ... 276 2.3 Decision-Making in Organizations / Susan J. Miller ; David J. Hickson ; David C. Wil ... 293 2.4 Cognitions in Organizations / Ann E. Tenbrunsel ; Tiffany L. Galvin ; Margaret ... 313 2.5 Diverse Identities in Organizations / Stella M. Nkomo ; Taylor Cox Jr ... 338 2.6 Putting Group Information Technology in its Place : Communication and Good Work Group Performance / Arthur D. Shulman ... 357 2.7 Metaphors of Communication and Organization / linda L. Putnam ; Nelson Philips ; Pamela Chapman ... 375 2.8 Organizations, Technology and Structuring / Karlene H. Roberts ; Martha Grabowski ... 409 2.9 Organizing for Innovation / Deborah Dougherty ... 424 2.10 Organizational learning : Affirming an Oxymoron / Karl E. Weick ; Frances Westley ... 440 2.11 Organizations and the Biosphere : Ecologies and Environments / Carolyn P. Egri ; Lawrence T. Pinfield ... 459 2.12 Evolution and Revolution : from international Business to Globalization / Barbara Parker ... 484 Part Three. REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE ... 507 3.1 Data in Organization Studies / Ralph Stablein ... 509 3.2 Action Research for the Study of Organizations / Colin Eden ; Chris Huxham ... 526 3.3 Emotion and Organizing / Stephen Fineman ... 543 3.4 Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life / Pasquale Gagliardi ... 565 3.5 Images of Time in Work and Organization / John Hassard ... 581 3.6 The Organizational Culture War Games : a Struggle for Intellectual Dominance / Joanne Martin ; Peter Frost ... 599 3.7 Some Dare Call It Power / Cynthia hardy ; Stewart R. Clegg ... 622 3.8 Normal Science, Paradigms, Metaphors, Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis / Gibson Burrell ... 642 3.9 The Owl of Minerva : Reflections on Theory in Practice / Richard Marsden ; Barbara Townley ... 659 Conclusion Representations / Steewart R. Clegg ; Cynthia Hardy ... 676 Index ... 709