Abstract: Introduction: A Social Science which Forgets its Founders is Lost – The Value of the Classics – Tocqueville as a Pioneer in Organization Theory – Marx and Organization Studies Today – It's Not Just for Communists Any More: Marxian Political Economy and Organizational Theory – Weber: Sintering the Iron Cage Translation, Domination, and Rationality Stewart Clegg – Max Weber and the Ethics of Office – On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the Twenty-First Century – How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology – A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization – Gabriel Tarde and Organization Theory – Georg Simmel: The Individual and the Organization – Types and Positions: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Organizational Behavior – Schumpeter and the Organization of Entrepreneurship – Norbert Elias's Impact on Organization Studies – Thorstein Veblen And The Organization of the Capitalist Economy – The Sociology of Race: The Contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois – Organizations and the Chicago School – After James on Identity – Reading Dewey: Some Implications for the Study of Routine – Mary Parker Follett and Pragmatist Organization – Peopling Organizations: The Promise of Classic Symbolic Interactionism for an Inhabited Institutionalism – John R. Commons: Back to the Future of Organization Studies – The Problem of the Corporation: Liberalism and the Large Organization – Bureaucratic Theory and Intellectual Renewal in Contemporary Organization Studies – The Columbia School and the Study of Bureaucracies: Why Organizations Have Lives of their Own – Parsons as an Organization Theorist – Sociological Classics and the Canon in the Study of Organizations

Keywords: globalization, race, capital, corporation, entrepreneur, ratio, contribution, organizational theory