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 | , , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Series | Research in the sociology of organizations ;
v. 34. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781780526652 |
| ISSN | 0733-558X ; |
| DOI | 10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)34 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (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.