Includes bibliographical references and index.

Management, organizations and contemporary social theory / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle & Frank Mueller -- Actor-network theory : Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Law / Damian O'Doherty -- Giddens and structuration theory / Ira Chatterjee, Jagat Kunwar and Frank den Hond -- Morphogenesis and reflexivity : margaret archer, critical realism and organizational analysis / Alistair Mutch -- Pierre Bourdieu and elites : making the hidden visible / Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey -- Theodor Schatzki's theory and its implications for organization studies / Georg Loscher, Violetta Splitter and David Seidl -- Mary Douglas and institutions / Dean Pierides and Graham Sewell -- Norbert Elias and organizations / Robert van Krieken -- Luhmann and organizations as social systems / Xavier Deroy -- Organizing Foucault : power, knowledge and governmentality / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- The Frankfurt School and critical theory -- Edward Granter -- Judith Butler and performativity / Kate Kenny -- Castells and informationalism / Sandro Mendonça, Cátia Miriam Costa and Tiago Lima Quintanilha -- Liquefying modernity : Zygmunt Bauman as organization theorist / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Management, organizations and contemporary social theory : an index of possibilities / Miguel Pina e Cunha & Stewart Clegg -- Index.

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Stewart Clegg is Distinguished Professor in Management at UTS Business School and a Visiting Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal. The central focus of his theoretical work has always been on power relations, enabling him to write on many diverse and ubiquitous topics - as power relations are everywhere. He is the co-author of two widely used textbooks and a prolific contributor to leading journals in the fields of organization studies, political power and management. Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Fundaçäao Amâelia de Mello Professor of Leadership and a member of the Leadership for Impact Center at Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal. His research deals with the surprising (paradox, improvisation, serendipity, zemblanity, vicious circles) and the extreme (positive organizing, genocide). He recently co-authored Positive Organizational Behavior (Routledge, 2019).

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