Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World / Edition 1

by Stewart R Clegg

Overview

This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist.

Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and 'post-Confucian' Asian enterprises - he argues that their success cannot be reduced to 'culture' but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803983304
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/01/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Theoretical Contrasts and International Contexts
Organizations and the Modernization of the World
Why and Where did Bureaucracy Triumph? Contingencies, Markets and Hierarchies
Ecologies, Institutions and Power in the Analysis of Organizations
French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprise
The Embeddedness of Organizational Diversities
Organizational Diversities and Rationalities
Modernist and Postmodernist Organization
Postmodern Skill Formation and Postmodern Capital Formation?