Contemporary Organization Theory

Organization Theory, 1985–2005: Campbell Jones and Rolland Munro.

1. Giorgio Agamben and the community without identity: René ten Bos.

2. Are we all good? Zygmunt Bauman’s response to Hobbes: Ruud Kaulingfreks.

3. Gibson Burrell: Diabolical architect: Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler.

4. Judith Butler: On organizing subjectivities: Janet Borgerson.

5. Othering Organization Theory: Marta Calás and Linda Smircich: Joanna Brewis.

6. Stewart Clegg: Towards a Machiavellian Organization Theory?: Peter Fleming and André Spicer.

7. Robert Cooper: Beyond organization: Sverre Spoelstra.

8. Immaculate defecation: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Organization Theory: Bent Meier Sørensen.

9. André Gorz: Autonomy and equity in the post-industrial age: Finn Bowring.

10. David Knights and Hugh Willmott: The subjugation of identity and...and...and...organization-to-come...: Damian O’Doherty.

11. The ordering of things: Organization in Bruno Latour: Jan Harris.

12. Organizations as decision machines: Niklas Luhmann’s theory of organized social systems: Armin Nassehi.

13. Antagonism, contradiction, time: Conflict and organization in Antonio Negri: Matteo Mandarini.

14. The Theatre of Measurement: Michel Serres: Steven D. Brown.

15. Practical deconstructivist feminist Marxist organization theory: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Campbell Jones.

16. Partial organization: Marilyn Strathern and the elicitation of relations: Rolland Munro.

17. Karl Weick: Concepts, style and reflection: Barbara Czarniawska.

18. Everything you wanted to know about Organization Theory...but were afraid to ask Slavoj Zˇ izˇek: Steffen Böhm and Christian De Cock.

Notes on contributors.

Index.