Arguing that any adequate organizational narrative for today must transcend the emotion/rationality divide, this text challenges the manager, the consultant and the business schools to take sociology seriously. The papers in this collection on the sociology of organizations were written over a period of 30 years. Collated in this volume with commentary and discussion by the author and followed by two specially written chapters bringing the story right up to date, they chart the development of the study of organizations during a period of epochal change from the modern to the global age. This...

Arguing that any adequate organizational narrative for today must transcend the emotion/rationality divide, this text challenges the manager, the consultant and the business schools to take sociology seriously. The papers in this collection on the sociology of organizations were written over a period of 30 years. Collated in this volume with commentary and discussion by the author and followed by two specially written chapters bringing the story right up to date, they chart the development of the study of organizations during a period of epochal change from the modern to the global age. This...