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Preface=xi
PART I. THEMES AND PROBLEMS=1
1. Society in a Network of Organizations=1
'External society' and 'internal society'=4
Subjectivity and social integration=5
Legal authority and modern organizations=6
Managing organizations: the principles of the classical school=10
An organization is modelled on a machine=14
The organization as an agent of civilization=15
Organizational networks and organizations without walls=16
Organizations meet other organizations=17
The notions of 'loose coupling' and of the creation of the external environment=18
Networks of inter-organizational relations=20
The network of organizations=21
The organization as a stable form of transaction=22
The organization without walls=24
Organization is a continuous process=26
Further reading=26
2. Organizations as Social Contexts=28
Theoretical paradigms and organizations as social contexts=29
Researching organizations and paradigmatic pluralism=32
The study of organizations as social contexts=33
The schools of organizational thought=34
The rational, interactionist, structural and compliance models=37
The perspective of the rational, natural and open system=39
The industrial, bureaucratic and organizational issues=44
The emerging strands of organizational analysis=47
The emerging organizational methodologies=48
Metaphors for organizations=50
Research programmes=54
Paradigms in the study of organizations as social contexts=57
Fragmentation, multiplicity and paradigmatic incommensurability=61
Further reading=62
3. Weaving the Organization Together=64
The metaphor of construction=64
The social construction of reality=65
Constructivism and constructionism=66
Organization as hypertext=68
The metaphor of the hypertext=69
Real organization and virtual organization=71
An organization is an artefact=73
The concept of texture of organizing=75
The contextualist world of organizing=76
Action and tacit knowledge=77
The use of the concept of texture of organizing=79
Further reading=82
4. The Ethos, Logos and Pathos of Organizational life=83
Organizational actors=84
Critical event and subjects=84
Competence and/or productivity=85
The community of practice and community memory=86
Organization and occupational and professional communities=88
The negotiation of rationality and organizational subjects=90
Courses of action and the negotiated order=94
Meaningful action and organizational interaction=94
The organizational order and the structure-in-process=96
Deontological, ontological and aesthetic dimensions=98
Emotions in organizations=99
Aesthetics in organizational life=100
The continuity of organizational phenomena=102
Further reading=102
5. Thematic Continuities and New Insights=104
Thematic continuities=106
Power and the negotiation of the organizational order=106
Alienation and the governance of organizational structures=108
Participation in organizational life=109
Institution and organization=110
Organizational decisions=112
Emerging themes=115
Gendered organizations=116
Organizational space=118
Organizational time=124
The social construction of the study of organizations as social contexts=127
Understanding and/or managing organizations=128
The Anglo-Saxon dominance of organization theory=130
Further reading=132
PART II. RESEARCH AND METHODS=133
6. The Methods of Empirical Organizational Research=133
The research design=134
Observation of organizational phenomena=137
Structured observation in Mintzberg's research=137
Immersion in and detachment from participant observation=140
Interviews and conversations=142
The structured interview in Lawrence and Lorsch's research study=144
The multiform character of the in-depth interview=146
The questionnaire=147
Information about organizations in Woodward's study=148
The opinions of the subjects in Lawrence and Lorsch's survey=149
The experience of working in organizations=150
The assessment of organizations in the research of Van de Ven and Ferry=152
Simulations of organizational life=153
Simulation and the garbage can decision-making model=154
Archive materials=158
Beliefs, labels and habits in methodological controversies=160
Further reading=162
7. The Pervasiveness of Measurement=164
The paradoxes of measurement=165
The measures of strong relations among organizational variables=169
Measuring the thoughts of organizational actors=173
The construction of causal maps=174
Aggregate measurement and global measurement=179
Further reading=182
Software developers' home page=183
8. Qualitative Methods and the Computer=184
Analytical induction and grounded theory=185
Producing text=191
Ordering observations=192
Transcribing conversations=195
Choosing the text units=196
Interpretation as decision-making=201
Further reading=203
Software developers' home page=203
References=204
Index=228