The Oxford handbook of sociology and organization studies classical foundations edited by Paul S. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I, The roles of the classics: 1. Introduction: A social science which forgets its founders is lost / Paul S. Adler ; 2. The value of the classics / Patricia H. Thornton -- Part II, European perspectives: 3. Tocqueville as a pioneer in organization theory / Richard Swedberg ; 4. Marx and organization studies today / Paul S. Adler ; 5. It's not just for communists any more : Marxian political economy and organizational theory / Richard Marens ; 6. Weber: sintering the iron cage : translation, domination, and rationality / Stewart Clegg and Michael Lounsbury ; 7. Max Weber and the ethics of office / Paul du Gay ; 8. On organizations and oligarchies : Michels in the twenty-first century / Pamela S. Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt ; 9. How Durkheim's theory of meaning-making influenced organizational sociology / Frank Dobbin ; 10. A Durkheimian approach to globalization / Paul Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, and Amanda Hoel-Green ;11. Gabriel Tarde and organization theory / Barbara Czarniawska ; 12. Georg Simmel : the individual and the organization / Alan Scott ; 13. Types and positions : the significance of Georg Simmel's structural theories for organizational behavior / Rodabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana ; 14. Schumpeter and the organization of entrepreneurship / Markus C. Becker and Thorbjorn Knudsen ; 15. Norbert Elias's impact on organization studies / Ad van Iterson -- Part III, American perspectives: 16. Thorstein Veblen and the organization of the capitalist economy / Gary G. Hamilton and Misha Petrovic ; 17. The sociology of race : the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois / Stella M. Nkomo ; 18. Organizations and the Chicago School / Andrew Abbott ; 19. After James on identity / Arne Carlsen ; 20. Reading Dewey : some implications for the study of routine / Michael D. Cohen ; 21. Mary Parker Follett and pragmatist organization / Christopher Ansell -- 22. Peopling organizations : the promise of classic symbolic interactionism for an inhabited instutionalism / Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine ; 23. John R. Commons : back to the future of organization studies / Andrew H. van de Ven and Arik Lifschitz ; 24. The problem of the corporation : liberalism and the large organization / Elisabeth S. Clemens ; 25. Bureaucratic theory and intellectual renewal in contemporary organization studies / Michael Reed ; 26. The Columbia School and the study of bureaucracies : why organizations have lives of their own / Heather A. Haveman ; 27. Parsons as an organization theorist / Charles Heckscher -- Part IV, Afterword: 28. Sociological classics and the canon in the study of organizations / Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald.

We live in a society of organisations, organisations which have profound and pervasive effects on our lives at work and beyond. Contemporary society and its organisations are in a period of accelerated, profound change. In this libro, leading sociology and organsational scholars consider how 'classic' sociologists can help make sense of change.