This book provides an authoritative and critical account of how key sociological theorists and research themes have influenced the field of organization studies. Used alongside The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, this book will provide an account of the interaction between sociology and organization studies over time

1 Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed: Introduction: Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies, continuing entanglements; European Influences: French and German Sociology and Social Theory; 2 Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller: Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives; 3 Barbara Townley: Bourdieu and organizational theory: A ghostly apparition?; 4 Alan Scott and Pier Paolo Pasqualino: The Making of a Paradigm: Exploring the Potential of the Economy of Convention and Pragmatic Sociology of Critique; 5 Barbara Czarniawska: Bruno Latour: An Accidental Organization Theorist; 6 Franck Cochoy: A Theory of 'Agencing': on Michel Callon's Contribution to Organizational Knowledge and Practice; 7 David Seidl and Hannah Mormann: Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorist; 8 Andreas Rasche and Andreas Georg Scherer: Jurgen Habermas and Organization Studies - Contributions and Future Prospects; 9 Steve Fleetwood: Bhaskar and Critical Realism; 10 Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull Kristensen: The Comparative Analysis of Capitalism and the Study of Organizations; Anglo-American Influences: American and British Sociology and Social Theory; 11 Edward Barratt: C. Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power; 12 Peter K. Manning: Organizational Analysis: Goffman and Dramaturgy; 13 Nick Llewellyn: Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology; 14 Peter Abell: Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations; 15 Mitchel Y. Abolafia, Jennifer E. Dodge, and Stephen K. Jackson: Clifford Geertz and the Interpretation of Organizations; 16 Michael Power: Risk, Social Theories and Organizations; 17 Stephen Smith: Arlie Hochschild, Emotion And Affect; 18 Timothy R. Kuhn and Linda L. Putnam: Discourse and Communication; 19 Richard Marens: The Second Time Farce: Business School Ethicists and the Emergence of Bastard Rawlsianism; 20 Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein: Hayek and Organizational Studies; 21 Klaus Weber and Brayden King: Social Movement Theory and Organization Studies; 22 Liz McFall and Jose Ossandon: What's new in the 'new, new economic sociology' and should Organization Studies care?; 23 Edward Granter: Critical Theory and Organization Studies; 24 Stephen Ackroyd: British Industrial Sociology and Organization Studies: A Distinctive Contribution; 25 Alistair Mutch: Anthony Giddens and Structuration Theory; 26 Marta B. Calas and Linda Smircich: Engendering the Organizational: Feminist Theorizing and Organization Studies; 27 Raza Mir and Ali Mir: Organizational Studies and the Subjects of Imperialism; 28 Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale: Space and Organization Studies; Organizing Social Worlds: Sociology, Organization Studies and the 'social'; 29 Andre Spicer: Organization Studies, Sociology and the Quest for a Public Organization Theory; 30 Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelso: What Makes Organization? Organizational Theory as a 'Practical Science'

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where he holds the Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. Prof. Adler received his doctorate in Economics and Management there while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. At the Academy of Management, he has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group, as a representative-at-large on the Board of Governors, and he currently serves as the Academy's Vice-President and program chair.

Paul du Gay is Professor of Organization Studies in the Department of Organization (IOA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). His work is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His publications include Consumption and Identity at Work, In Praise of Bureaucracy, and Organizing Identity. At CBS, he directs the Velux research programme, What Makes Organization?, and co-directs the Business in Society Public-Private Platform.

Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research focuses on different forms of capitalism, the impact of globalization and neo-liberalism, and the changing nature of firms and organizations. From 2005-2008, he was Editor in Chief of the journal Organization: The Critical Journal of Theory, Organization and Society. Recent edited books include Capitalism and Capitalisms in the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2012; edited with R. Whitley) and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (OUP 2010; edited with J.L. Campbell, C. Crouch, O.K. Pedersen and R. Whitley).

Professor Michael Reed is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.