Power and Organizations / Edition 1

by Stewart R Clegg, David Courpasson, Nelson X. Phillips

Overview

In this tour de force, authors Stewart R. Clegg, David Courpasson, and Nelson Phillips provide a comprehensive account of power and organizations, unlocking power as the central relation of modern organizations and society. The authors present an excellent synthesis of organization, social and political theory to offer an overview of power and organizations that is historically informed, addresses current issues, and is comprehensive in scope.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761943914
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/10/2006
Series:	Foundations for Organizational Science
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.

David Courpasson is a Professor at EM-Lyon Business School, France and the Editor in Chief of Organization Studies

Nelson Phillips is Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour at Imperial College London. His research interests include various aspects of organization theory, technology strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, often studied from an institutional theory perspective. He also has an interest in discourse analysis and related textual research methods. He has published numerous academic articles and book chapters including articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Academy of Management Annals. He has also published three books: Discourse Analysis with Cynthia Hardy published in 2002, Power and Organizations with Stewart Clegg and David Courpasson published in 2006, and Technology and Organization with Graham Sewell and Dorothy Griffiths published in 2010. He is currently co-editing a new Handbook of Innovation Management with David Gann and Mark Dodgson, and an RSO volume entitled Religion and Organization with Paul Tracey and Michael Lounsbury.

Table of Contents

Fixing the Institutionalization of Theory and Practice
Power and Efficiency
Body, Soul, and Mind
The Curious Case of Max Weber
The Rational System and Its Irrational Other
The Heart of Darkness
Power to and Power over
The Foucault Effect
Critical Theories
Discursive Theories
Power and Organizational Forms
Corporate Power Elites
The Futures of Power?

Editorial Reviews

"Power is a core concept in organization theory and the social sciences more broadly, yet it is missing from many contemporary debates. This book places the study of power where it belongs: at the forefront of our concerns as organizational researchers. Engagingly written, impressive in scope, and with a clear view of what power means, this book will command a wide audience. "

Royston Greenwood

"Too often political and organizational theorists have taken separate paths, addressing themselves to different problems and audiences. No more. In Power and Organizations Clegg and his associates expose the power dynamics that lie at the heart of all political and organizational arenas, and in so doing, they shed light on the underbelly along with the creative potentialities in organizational life. This book is must reading for students of organizational and political theory who are eager to unite our understanding of how power operates in all contexts"

Joyce Rothschild