1st Edition
Disorganization Theory Explorations in Alternative Organizational Analysis
Part I Alternative knowledge 1 Paradigm plurality and its prospects 2 Organizational knowledge: production and consumption 3 Escaping the confines of organization theory (with Ian Atkin) Part II Alternative concepts 4 Actor-networks and sociological symmetry (with Christine McLean) 5 Identity and fluidity (with Beverly Metcalfe) 6 Time and temporality 7 Decoration and disorganization (with Stella Minahan)8 Governmentality and networks Part III Alternative methodology 9 Actor-networks, research strategy and organization (with Nick Lee) 10 Rethinking triangulation 11 Critical retrospective research 12 Concluding remarks: a future agenda for alternative organization studies
Biography
John Hassard is Professor of Organizational Analysis at the Manchester Business School and Senior Professorial Research Associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Mihaela Kelemen is Professor of Management Studies in the School of Economic and Management Studies, Keele University.
Julie Wolfram Cox is Professor of Management in the Bowater School of Management and Marketing at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
"The provocatively titled book Disorganization Theory provides a series of epistemological,conceptual and methodological explorations with the aim of providing an 'alternative' agenda for the development of organization theory and analysis.
I believe the originality and creativity of the work thoroughlyd eserves strong praise.For more advanced students of organization studies,interested in new and provocative 'alternatives' this book will undoubtedly prove to be a very useful resource"- Organization Studies,29
