Rethinking power in organizations, institutions, and markets

In this volume we strive to go beyond the dual approach of power opposing structural/oversocialized perspectives and situational perspectives, through theoretical and empirical contributions stressing power as a. continuously 'living' phenomenon. In particular, the volume will address issu...

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Other Authors Courpasson, David, Golsorkhi, Damon, Sallaz, Jeffrey J., 1974-
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 34.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780526652
ISSN0733-558X ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (viii, 316 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking power in organizations, institutions, and markets : classical perspectives, current research, and the future agenda / David Courpasson, Damon Golsorkhi, Jeffrey J. Sallaz
  • Researching organizational elites : a critical realist perspective / Mike Reed
  • The polyarchic bureaucracy : cooperative resistance in the workplace and the construction of a new political structure of organizations / David Courpasson, Stewart Clegg
  • The limit of bureaucratic power in organizations : the case of the Chinese bureaucracy / Xueguang Zhou, Yun Ai, Hong Lian
  • Murky power : 'think tanks' as boundary organizations / Thomas Medvetz
  • Laboring for the man : augmenting authority in a voluntary association / Katherine K. Chen
  • Conceptualizing power in organizations / Steven P. Vallas, Andrea Hill
  • Dominant ideological modes of rationality : organizations as arenas of struggle over members' categorization devices / Vibeke Vad Baunsgaard, Stewart Clegg
  • Scenes from a power struggle : the rise of retail investors in the US stock market / Brooke Harrington
  • Targeting organizations : private and contentious politics / Sarah A. Soule
  • A political-cultural approach to the problem of strategic action / Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam.