ISBN:
9781839103261
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (572 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Research Handbooks in Sociology Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Godwyn, Mary Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations -- PART I SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- 1. The organization of higher education: an overview of sociological research into universities as organizations -- 2. Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization -- 3. A critical management studies approach to big data -- 4. Carceral goals: the role of corrections officers in organizational goal attainment -- 5. Do organizations have a purpose? The symbolic constructivism test -- 6. Organizational legitimacy and legitimizing myths -- 7. Dialectical network analysis: a critical approach for researching networks in management and organization studies -- 8. The importance of empathy and compassion in organizations: why there is so little, and why we need more -- 9. Where words speak louder than actions: values, strategy and action in globalizing education - how successful IB schools are made -- 10. Exploring the connections between critical and contemporary social theory and the sociology of culture -- 11. Entrepreneurial hybridity: concept and context in creative and cultural organizations -- 12. Theory, practice and bricolage: recombobulating agencies and reorienting resistance to neoliberalization of the (post-) welfare state -- 13. A world polity view on reorganization and institutional change in natural resources management -- 14. The influence of organizational structures on police decision-making on stop, question and frisk -- PART II EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES AND CASE STUDIES -- 15. Rationalizing work through occupational communities in independent games development -- 16. Religion at work: the Quaker paradox -- 17. Charisma and charismatic leadership in organizations
Description / Table of Contents:
18. Organizations and power: a critical evaluation of the rise of performance measurement -- 19. Autonomist leadership and organizational practice in leaderless street bands -- 20. Contemporizing the social organization of parole: a critical assessment -- 21. Professionalization and the politicization of civil society organizations in Sierra Leone -- 22. Getting real about research: lessons learned from a worker training evaluation project -- 23. Career development opportunities: a sociological and practitioner exploration of organizational commitment factors, theories, and outcomes -- 24. Resistance and resilience among tattoo workers -- PART III ORGANIZATIONS AS MESO-LEVEL MEDIATORS OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL OUTCOMES -- 25. Synergies between school leaders and communities in challenging urban schools: a review of organizational dynamics and the urban schools' continuum -- 26. Critical realist metatheory and the sociology of organizations: using contrastive explanation to explain personal internet use at work -- 27. Exploring relations of power in Quakers' alternative forms of organizing -- 28. The dialectic of changing corporate masks: from profit maximizers to predators to socially responsible global leaders -- 29. Organizing values: the principles of rationalization and individualization -- Index
Note:
Chapter 2 is available for free as Open Access from the individual product page at www.elgaronline.com under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/) license
DOI:
10.4337/9781839103261
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