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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Research has
overlooked the need for modern organisations to enact continuity
during periods of change. This Research Agenda addresses this by
considering continuity and change as engaging in various forms of
mutual interplay. The underlying theme of this book is that change
needs continuity just as continuity needs change. In this Research
Agenda, internationally renowned contributors offer insights
through a wide range of case studies and chart a path for future
research. Readers will discover how the continuity-change interplay
unfolds in a variety of organisational types and industries. Key
examples show the importance of understanding continuity as an
integrative part of organisational change at various levels of
organisation. A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and
Change will be useful for scholars and students of organisation and
management, including teachers involved in executive education.
Organization takes place in a tangled world, intermeshed by
changing markets, products, standards, technologies, institutions
and social groups. Coming to grips with the complexity and fluidity
of organization and management is a persistent problem for scholars
and practitioners alike, which is why process issues have received
renewed interest in recent years. This book, aimed at scholars and
higher level students, frames some of these issues in novel and
instructive ways. Process views have existed since before the early
Greek philosophers and have made decisive marks in all sciences.
Alfred North Whitehead's classic work is a landmark in process
philosophy, and his thinking provides renewed impetus to social
scientists in search of an expanded framework of process thinking.
Theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, Karl Weick and
James March have contributed significantly towards a process view
of organization. In this book, central aspects of their thinking
are interpreted and discussed with the help of a broader canvas of
process thinking provided by Whitehead. The comparisons do not only
allow for interesting connections to be made between the theorists,
but they also enable understanding to be made of the thinking
behind their respective works. From the analysis, ideas are
suggested for a framework for process-based organizational
analysis. Advanced students and academics in sociology,
organization studies and management studies will find this book
useful in its discussion of such subjects as organization theory,
process philosophy and process studies.
This exciting new text engages with the issue of ethical dilemmas
encountered in different organizations. Rather than exploring the
definition of ethical conduct, this book focuses on the way in
which the process of organization produces dilemmas of ethical
behaviour. Using illustrative accounts from corporate settings as a
basis, the book explores the conditions that lead to ethical
dilemmas and the strategies organizations adopt to deal with these
dilemmas or steer away from them. The book suggests that ethical
dilemmas are often dealt with by directing attention away from the
core problem, rather than engaging with and solving it. This is a
fascinating text, which raises important questions and provides a
deeper understanding of the dynamics of ethical processes. A
company's ethical behaviour is a major criterion by which the
company, its products and services are judged and is therefore
crucial to sound management in today's organizations. Ethical
Dilemmas in Management is essential reading for all students of
business and management and ethics.
Organization takes place in a tangled world, intermeshed by
changing markets, products, standards, technologies, institutions
and social groups. Coming to grips with the complexity and fluidity
of organization and management is a persistent problem for scholars
and practitioners alike, which is why process issues have received
renewed interest in recent years. This book, aimed at scholars and
higher level students, frames some of these issues in novel and
instructive ways.
Process views have existed since before the early Greek
philosophers and have made decisive marks in all sciences. Alfred
North Whitehead's classic work is a landmark in process philosophy,
and his thinking provides renewed impetus to social scientists in
search of an expanded framework of process thinking. Theorists such
as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, Karl Weick and James March have
contributed significantly towards a process view of organization.
In this book, central aspects of their thinking are interpreted and
discussed with the help of a broader canvas of process thinking
provided by Whitehead. The comparisons do not only allow for
interesting connections to be made between the theorists, but they
also enable understanding to be made of the thinking behind their
respective works. From the analysis, ideas are suggested for a
framework for process-based organizational analysis.
Advanced students and academics in sociology, organization studies
and management studies will find this book useful in its discussion
of such subjects as organization theory, process philosophy and
process studies.
This exciting new text engages with the issue of ethical dilemmas
encountered in different organizations. Rather than exploring the
definition of ethical conduct, this book focuses on the way in
which the process of organization produces dilemmas of ethical
behaviour. Using illustrative accounts from corporate settings as a
basis, the book explores the conditions that lead to ethical
dilemmas and the strategies organizations adopt to deal with these
dilemmas or steer away from them. The book suggests that ethical
dilemmas are often dealt with by directing attention away from the
core problem, rather than engaging with and solving it. This is a
fascinating text, which raises important questions and provides a
deeper understanding of the dynamics of ethical processes. A
company's ethical behaviour is a major criterion by which the
company, its products and services are judged and is therefore
crucial to sound management in today's organizations. Ethical
Dilemmas in Management is essential reading for all students of
business and management and ethics.
Process approaches to organization studies focus on flow,
activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and
organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to
positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as
fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches draw on a range
of ideas and philosophies. The Handbook examines 34 philosophers
and social theorists, both those commonly linked to process
thinking, such as Whitehead, Bergson and James, and those that are
not as often addressed from a process perspective such as Dilthey
and Tarde. Each chapter addresses the background and context of
this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements),
and the potential contribution to organization and management
research. For students and scholars in the field of Organization
Studies this book is an entry point into the work of philosophical
thinkers and social theorists for whom the world is far from being
a solid place.
Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing is the first in a series of
volumes which explore perspectives on process theories, an emerging
approach to the study of organizations that focuses on
(understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential
properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an
approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over
persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over
determination.
Process and sensemaking may be seen as mutually interlocking
phenomena and, as such, are cornerstones in process thinking, This
volume brings together contributions from an international group of
scholars energized by process organization studies. The collection
offers perspectives from different disciplines, insights from
diverse theoretical traditions and contexts, and parallels made
with a range of cultural forms, including art, poetry, and cookery.
At the same time, the chapters exhibit a clear emphasis on a
process ontology, process theorizing, and narrative thinking.
Across this rich and varied collection recurrent themes emerge that
distinguish process theorizing from the more logico-scientific,
variance-oriented research that dominates organization studies
today. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and
graduate students in management, organization studies, and
sociology who wish to better understand the emergent, changing, and
flow-like character of organizational life and expand their
understanding of the nature of sensemaking as a basis for
organizing.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing is the first in a series of
volumes which explore perspectives on process theories, an emerging
approach to the study of organizations that focuses on
(understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential
properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an
approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over
persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over
determination.
Process and sensemaking may be seen as mutually interlocking
phenomena and, as such, are cornerstones in process thinking, This
volume brings together contributions from an international group of
scholars energized by process organization studies. The collection
offers perspectives from different disciplines, insights from
diverse theoretical traditions and contexts, and parallels made
with a range of cultural forms, including art, poetry, and cookery.
At the same time, the chapters exhibit a clear emphasis on a
process ontology, process theorizing, and narrative thinking.
Across this rich and varied collection recurrent themes emerge that
distinguish process theorizing from the more logico-scientific,
variance-oriented research that dominates organization studies
today. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and
graduate students in management, organization studies, and
sociology who wish to better understand the emergent, changing, and
flow-like character of organizational life and expand their
understanding of the nature of sensemaking as a basis for
organizing.
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