The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies
Classical Foundations
Adler, Paul S. Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953523-1
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




1 Introduction
A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost
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Paul S. Adler
Abstract: Why Read the Classics? – Why Now? – An Overview – Why These Classics?



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Paul S. Adler is a Professor in the Department of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He has published four edited volumes, Technology and the Future of Work (1992), Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools (1992), Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems (1999), and The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (2006), all with Oxford University Press.
 
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Full Book Contents
Preface
I The Roles of the Classics
1 Introduction
2 The Value of the Classics
II European Perspectives
3 Tocqueville as a Pioneer In Organization Theory
4 Marx and Organization Studies Today
5 It's Not Just for Communists Any More
6 Weber: Sintering the Iron Cage Translation, Domination, and Rationality Stewart Clegg
7 Max Weber and the Ethics of Office
8 On Organizations and Oligarchies
9 How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology
10 A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization
11 Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory
12 Georg Simmel
13 Types and Positions
14 Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship
15 Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies
III American Perspectives
16 Thorstein Veblen And The Organization of the Capitalist Economy
17 The Sociology of Race
18 Organizations and the Chicago School
19 After James on Identity
20 Reading Dewey
21 Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization
22 Peopling Organizations
23 John R. Commons
24 The Problem of the Corporation
25 Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies
26 The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies
27 Parsons as an Organization Theorist
IV Afterword
28 Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations
Index
 
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