Debating Organization: Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies

Notes on the Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. The Discourse of Organization Studies: Dissensus, Politics and Paradigms: R. Westwood and S. Clegg.

Part I: Foundations:.

2. Organization Studies: a Discipline or Field?.

Commentary: What Kind of Science Should OS Strive to Be?.

From Fields to Science: Can Organization Studies Make the Transition? Bill McKelvey, University of California Los Angeles.

Paradigm Plurality: Exploring Past, Present and Future Trends: Mihaela Kelemen, Keele University, and John Hassard, UMIST.

3. Ontology.

Commentary: Let's Get Ontological.

Order is Free: On the Ontological Status of Organizations: Kimberly B. Boal,Texas Tech University, James G. Hunt, Texas Tech University, and Stephen J. Jaros, Southern University.

Ontology: Organizations as World-Making: Robert Chia, University of Exeter.

4. Epistemology.

Commentary: On Being Positive and Becoming Constructivist.

Position Statement for Positivism: Lex Donaldson, University of New South Wales.

Social Constructionism and Organization Studies: Barbara Czarniawska, Göteburg University.

5. Methodology.

Commentary: Ironic Authenticity and Paradoxical Constructivism.

From Subjectivity to Objectivity: A Constructivist Account of Objectivity in Organization Theory: William McKinley, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

From Objectivity to Subjectivity. Confession of a Counter-Modernist: Pursuing Subjective Authenticity in Organizational Research: Peter Case, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II: Frames:.

6. Organization: Environment.

Commentary: Enacting/Institutionalizing.

Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing: Karl E. Weick, University of Michigan.

Enactment as an Institutional Change Mechanism: P. Devereaux Jennings, University of British Columbia, and Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta.

7. Power and Institutions.

Commentary: The Dynamics of Institution.

The Problem of Order Revisited: Towards a More Critical Institutional Perspective: Michael Lounsbury, Cornell University. Power, Discourse and Institutions: Institutional Theory and the Challenge of Critical Discourse Analysis: Nelson Phillips, University of Cambridge.

8. Globalization.

Commentary: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Globalization.

The Disorganization of Inclusion: Globalization as Process: Barbara Parker, Seattle University.

Globalization and the Organizations of Exclusion in Advanced Capitalism: Marc T. Jones, Macquarie University.

Part III: Structure and Culture:.

9. Structure.

Commentary: Organization Structure.

Structure: Bob Hinings, University of Alberta.

Disorganization: Rolland Munro, Keele University.

10. Culture.

Commentary: Making Sense of Culture.

The Case for Culture: Neal M. Ashkanasy, The University of Queensland.

Instantiative vs Entitiative Culture: The Case for Culture as Process: Andrew Chan, City University of Hong Kong.

Part IV: Identity and Relationships:.

11. Gender and Identity.

Commentary: Non-debating Gender.

Theorizing Gender and Organizing: Silvia Gherardi,Trento University, Judi Marshall, University of Bath, Albert J. Mills, St Mary's University.

12. Trust.

Commentary: Trust Organizational Psychosis Versus the Virtues of Trust.

The Virtues of Prudent Trust: Roderick M. Kramer, Stanford University.

Fool'd with Hope, Men Favour the Deceit or: Can We Trust in Trust? Burkard Sievers, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

13. Question Time: Notes on Altercation Stephen Linstead.

Index.