The sociology of organizations : an anthology of contemporary theory and research /
Amy S. Wharton.
- c2007.
- xi, 538 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reflections on a half-century of organizational sociology / W. Richard Scott -- Markets, bureaucracies, and clans / William G. Ouichi -- Why bureaucracy? / Charles Perrow -- The social structure of managerial work / Robert Jackall -- Institutionalized organizations : formal structure as myth and ceremony / John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan -- Organizing America : wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism / Charles Perrow -- Bureaucracy and democracy in organizations : revisiting feminist organizations / Catherine Alter -- Nonprofit organizations in international development : agents of empowerment or preservers of stability? / Brian H. Smith -- Homophily in voluntary organizations : status distance and the composition of face-to-face groups / J. Miller McPherson and Lynn Smith-Lovin -- Democratizing rural economy : institutional friction, sustainable struggle, and the cooperative movement / Patrick H. Mooney -- Boundary control : the social ordering of work and family time in a hightech corporation / Leslie A. Perlow -- An alternative to bureaucratic impersonality and emotional labor : bounded emotionality at the body shop / Joanne Martin, Kathleen Knopoff, and Christine Beckman -- Maintaining norms about expressed emotions : the case of bill collectors / Robert I. Sutton -- Metaphors and meaning : an intercultural analysis of the concept of teamwork / Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn -- Beach time, bridge time, and billable hours : the temporal structure of technical contracting / James A. Evans, Gideon Kunda, and Stephen R. Barley -- Covert political conflict in organizations : challenges from below / Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald, and Hayagreeva Rao -- A social movement perspective on corporate control / Gerald F. Davis and Tracy A. Thompson -- Two faces of the powerless : coping with tyranny in organizations / Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp -- When cymbals become symbols : conflict over organizational identity within a symphony orchestra / Mary Ann Glynn -- Cultural diversity at work : the effects of diversity perspectives on work group processes and outcomes / Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas -- Race, opportunity, and diversity of social circles in managerial networks / Herminia Ibarra -- The effects of organizational demographics and social identity on relationships among professional women / Robin J. Ely -- (In)voluntary association : a multilevel analysis of gender segregation in voluntary organizations / Pamela A. Popielarz -- The iron cage revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell -- The demographic perspective / Glen R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan -- Caveat emptor : the construction of nonprofit consumer watchdog organizations / Hayagreeva Rao -- Autonomy, interdependence, and social control : NASA and the space shuttle Challenger / Diane Vaughan -- Institutional pressures and strategic responsiveness : employer involvement in work-family issues / Jerry D. Goodstein -- Breaking the iron law of oligarchy : union revitalization in the American labor movement / Kim Voss and Rachel Sherman -- Institutional sources of practice variation : staffing college and university recycling programs / Michael Lounsbury -- The capitalist firm in the twenty-first century : emerging patterns in western enterprise / Walter W. Powell -- Corporations, classes, and social movements after managerialism / Gerald F. Davis and Doug McAdam.
Wharton's anthology provides an overview of contemporary theory and research in the sociology of organizations. Three features of this book are particularly distinctive: an emphasis on sociological content; attention to contemporary theory and research; and its comprehensive, research-based, and methodologically diverse approach.