Rethinking Organization

Introduction/DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY/Incommensurable Paradigms? Vital Signs From Three Perspectives/The Symbolic Understanding of Organizations/Organization Studies and Scientific Authority/Putting Theory in its Place/The Social Organization of Organizational Theorizing/Paradigms Lost/Paradise Regained?/CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS/The Social Construction of Organizations and Markets/Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes/Changing Organizational Forms/From the Bottom Up/Back to the Future/Time and Organization/The Transformation in Work/Post-Fordism Revisited/EMERGENT PROBLEMATICS/Organization Theory in the Postmodern Era/Re-Writing Gender into Organizational Theorizing/Directions from Feminist Perspectives/Formal Organization as Representation/Remote Control Displacement and Abbreviation/Formative Contexts and Activity Systems/Postmodern Approaches to the Management of Change/CONCLUSION/Decluding Organization