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NOW PUBLISHED - Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol 34

NOW PUBLISHED - Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol 34, edited by David Courpasson, Damon Golsorkhi and Jeffrey Sallaz

Synopsis: 

Organizations are central actors of modern society. No understanding of our world is complete without a theory of how they work.  This insight is grounded in the foundational texts of classical social theory, and it remains as true as ever today.  Be they multinational corporations or start-up firms, established political parties or insurgent social movements, successful organizations must engage in power-projects.  Such is the overarching argument of this volume, a collection of papers by many of the world's leading social scientists and organizational scholars.  Many contributions analyze empirical data to generate cutting-edge arguments about the actual working of organizations, institutions, and markets. Other papers represent original theoretical arguments that propose new ways to see and study power.  Topics addressed include the nature of post-bureaucratic (polyarchic) organizations, strategic action within fields, identity and contentious politics, and emergent forms of resistance.  Collectively, the papers that comprise this volume set a fresh agenda for the study of power in and across organizations and institutions.
         
Table of Contents:

Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets: Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda
David Courpasson, Damon Golsorkhi, Jeffrey J. Sallaz (pp. 1 - 20)

Researching Organizational Elites: A Critical Realist Perspective
Mike Reed (pp. 21 - 53)

The Polyarchic Bureaucracy: Cooperative Resistance in the Workplace and the Construction of a New Political Structure of Organizations
David Courpasson, Stewart Clegg (pp. 55 - 79)

The Limit of Bureaucratic Power in Organizations: The Case of the Chinese Bureaucracy
Xueguang Zhou, Yun Ai, Hong Lian (pp. 81 - 111)

Murky Power: “Think Tanks” as Boundary Organizations
Thomas Medvetz (pp. 113 - 133)

Laboring for the Man: Augmenting Authority in a Voluntary Association
Katherine K. Chen (pp. 135 - 164)

Conceptualizing Power in Organizations
Steven P. Vallas, Andrea Hill (pp. 165 - 197)

Dominant Ideological Modes of Rationality: Organizations as Arenas of Struggle Over Members’ Categorization Devices
Vibeke Vad Baunsgaard, Stewart Clegg (pp. 199 - 232)

Scenes from a Power Struggle: The Rise of Retail Investors in the US Stock Market
Brooke Harrington (pp. 233 - 260)

Targeting Organizations: Private and Contentious Politics
Sarah A. Soule (pp. 261 - 285)

A Political–Cultural Approach to the Problem of Strategic Action
Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam (pp. 287 - 316)

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