The first of a two-volume paperback edition of the "Handbook of Organization Studies". The contributors locate the study of organization by reviewing some significant theoretical paradigms and reflect on the relationships between theory and research in organization studies.

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSIS Organizational Theorizing - Michael Reed An Historically Contested Terrain The Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory - Lex Donaldson Organizational Ecology - Joel A C Baum Organizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William Hesterly Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic Analysis The Individual in Organizational Studies - Walter R Nord and Suzy Fox The Great Disappearing Act? The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory - Pamela S Tolbert and Lynne G Zucker Critical Theory and Postmodernism - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz Approaches to Organizational Studies From the `Woman′s′ Point of View - Maria B Cal[ac]as and Linda Smircich Feminist Approaches to Organization Studies PART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE Data in Organizational Studies - Ralph Stablein Action Research for the Study of Organizations - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham Emotion and Organizing - Stephen Fineman Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale Gagliardi Images of Time in Work and Organization - John Hassard The Organizational Culture War Games - Joanne Martin and Peter Frost A Struggle for Intellectual Dominance Some Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart R Clegg Normal Science, Paradigms, Metaphors, Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis - Gibson Burrell The Owl of Minerva - Richard Marsden and Barbara Townley Reflections on Theory in Practice Representations - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy

`The book should have a place on the shelves of every institution purporting to teach management. The studies contained in the book each require considerable critical reflection, and are aimed at those with a deep interest in organization theory rather than the student concerned to obtain the minimum knowledge required to pass a professional examination in the subject. The specialists will refer to this book again and again′ - British Journal of Administrative Management