This set contains essential articles and publications on Organization Studies in one collection some of which will be available for the first time to international students, researchers and academics.

Volume One Histories The Roots of Uncertainty in Organization Theory: A Historical Constructivist Analysis - Yehouda Shenhav and Ely Weitz From King to Court Jester? Weber′s Fall from Grace in Organizational Theory - Michael Lounsbury and Edward J. Carberry ′Dead Selves′: The Birth of the Modern Career - Alan McKinlay Shouldn′t Organization Theory Emerge from Adolescence? - William H. Starbuck The Study of Organizations and Organizing since 1945 - James G. March Managing Foucault: Genealogies of Management - Alan McKinlay From Freemasons to the Employee: Organization, History and Subjectivity - Tim Newton Ties to the Past in Organization Research: A Comparative Analysis of Retrospective Methods - Julie Wolfram Cox and John Hassard The New Structuralism in Organizational Theory - Michael Lounsbury and Marc Ventresca Institutions and Evolutions Lords of the Dance: Professionals as Institutional Agents - W. Richard Scott Co-Evolution of Entrepreneurial Careers, Institutional Rules and Competitive Dynamics in American Film, 1895-1920 - Candace Jones Co-Evolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition: Investigating the Music Industry, 1877-1997 - Marc Huygens, Charles Baden-Fuller, Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch and Henk W. Volberda The Co-Evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational Strategies: The Rise of Family Business Groups in the ASEAN Region - Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic From Moby Dick to Free Willy: Macro-Cultural Discourse and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Institutional Fields - Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips New Practice Creation: An Institutional Perspective on Innovation - Michael Lounsbury and Ellen T. Crumley The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince: The Strategic Face of Power in Contested Fields - David Levy and Maureen Scully A Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship - Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache How Institutions Form: Loose Coupling as Mechanism in Gouldner′s Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy - Tim Hallett and Marc J. Ventresca New Organizational Forms: Towards a Generative Dialogue - Ian Palmer, Jodie Benveniste and Richard Dunford The Rise of Post-Bureaucracy: Theorists′ Fancy or Organizational Praxis? - Phil Johnson, Geoffrey Wood, Chris Brewster and Michael Brookes Volume Two Process and Practice Theories Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World - Karl E. Weick Organizing Is Both a Verb and a Noun: Weick Meets Whitehead - Tore Bakken and Tor Hernes The Sites of Organizations - Theodore R. Schatzki Introduction to the Symposium on the Foundations of Organizing: The Contribution from Garfinkel, Goffman and Sacks - Dalvir Samra-Fredericks and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini Goffman on Organizations - Peter K. Manning Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology and Workplace Studies - Anne Warfield Rawls Organization in Actual Episodes of Work: Harvey Sacks and Organization Studies - Nick Llewellyn Organs of Process: Rethinking Human Organization - Robert Cooper Organizations as Distinction Generating and Processing Systems: Niklas Luhmann′s Contribution to Organization Studies - David Seidl and Kai Helge Becker Discourses Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis - Mats Alvesson and Dan Karreman Standardization, Globalization and Rationalities of Government - Winton Higgins and Kristina Tamm Hallström Discourse Analysis in Organization Studies: The Case for Critical Realism - Norman Fairclough Embedded Ethics: Discourse and Power in the New South Wales Police Service - Ray Gordon, Stewart Clegg and Martin Kornberger On the Multi-Modality, Materiality and Contingency of Organization Discourse - Rick Iedema Organizational Context and the Discursive Construction of Organizing - John A.A. Sillince The Application of Rhetorical Theory in Managerial Research: A Literature Review - E. Johanna Hartelius and Larry D. Browning Meaning in Organizational Communication: Why Metaphor Is the Cake, Not the Icing - Raymond Hogler, Michael A. Gross, Jackie L. Hartman and Ann L. Cunliffe Volume Three Organizing Time, Space and Embodiment On Time, Space, and Action Nets - Barbara Czarniawska Organizational Time: A Dialectical View - Miguel Pina e Cunha The Temporalization of Financial Markets: From Network to Flow - Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda The Night of the Bug: Technology, Risk and (dis)Organization at the fin de siècle - David Knights, Theo Vurdubakis and Hugh Willmott Place, Space and Time: Contextualizing Workplace Subjectivities - Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard Stretching Out and Expanding Work Practices in Time and Space: The Case of Telemedicine - Davide Nicolini Knowing Bodies at Work: Embodiment and Ephemeral Teamwork in Anaesthesia - Jon Hindmarsh and Alison Pilnick Dance-Work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance - Donncha Kavanagh, Carmen Kuhling and Kieran Keohane Organizing Identity Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work - David L. Collinson The Tyranny of the Epochal: Change, Epochalism and Organizational Reform - Paul du Gay Theorizing the Micro-Politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services - Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies Cages in Tandem: Management Control, Social Identity, and Identification in a Knowledge-Intensive Firm - Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson Double Agents: Gendered Organizational Culture, Control and Resistance - Beverley Hawkins Sexuality, Power and Resistance in the Workplace - Peter Fleming The Importance of Being ′Indian′: Identity Centrality and Work Outcomes in an Off-Shored Call Center in India - Diya Das, Ravi Dharwadkar and Pamela Brandes Albert and Whetten Revisited: Strengthening the Concept of Organizational Identity - David A. Whetten Mobilizing Identities: Uncertainty and Control in Strategy - Harrison C. White, Frédéric C. Godart and Victor P. Corona Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries - Stewart R. Clegg, Carl Rhodes and Martin Kornberger Volume Four Cultures and Organizations Culture and Organization Theory - Calvin Morrill Governmentality Matters: Designing an Alliance Culture of Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Managing Projects - Stewart R. Clegg, Tyrone S. Pitsis, Thekla Rura-Polley and Marton Marosszeky The Political Dynamics of Organizational Culture in an Institutionalized Environment - Suzana Braga Rodrigues In Search of Identity and Legitimation: Bridging Organizational Culture and Neoinstitutionalism - Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen and Frank Dobbin Hofstede′s Model of National Cultural Differences and Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith - A Failure of Analysis - Brendan McSweeney D′Oh: The Simpsons, Popular Culture, and the Organizational Carnival - Carl Rhodes Pop (Culture) Goes the Organization: On Highbrow, Lowbrow and Hybrids in Studying Popular Culture within Organization Studies - Alf Rehn Organization/s and/as Relations of Power Reflections on Seven Ways of Creating Power - Mark Haugaard What B Would Otherwise Do: A Critique of Conceptualizations of ′Power′ in Organizational Theory - Galit Ailon The Politics of Gossip and Denial in Interorganizational Relations - Ad van Iterson and Stewart R. Clegg Metaphors of Resistance - Peter Fleming The Fox and the Hedgehog Go to Work: A Natural History of Workplace Collusion - Graham Sewell Rituals and Resistance: Membership Dynamics in Professional Fields - Thomas B. Lawrence Circuits of Power in Practice: Strategic Ambiguity as Delegation of Authority - Sally Davenport and Shirley Leitch Necrocapitalism - Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee From Binarism Back to Hybridity: A Postcolonial Reading of Management and Organization Studies - Michal Frenkel and Yehouda Shenhav Organization Studies and Epistemic Coloniality in Latin America: Thinking Otherness from the Margins - Eduardo Ibarra-Colado