For Formal Organization The Past In The Present And Future Of Organization Theory Paul Du Gay by Paul Du Gay, Signe Vikkelso 9780198705123, 0198705123 instant download after payment.

This book focuses on the state of Organization Theory, its purpose,
object, and practical relevance. In recent years, disquiet has mounted
within the field of organizational analysis, broadly defined, about the
overly theoretical and a-or anti-organizational state of Organization
Theory and its consequent lack of practical purchase, not least in the
light of pressing economic, social and political concerns that are often
profoundly organizational in nature.
The book argues that
predominant contemporary modes of theorising within the field, and in
particular the stance associated with them, have had the effect of
occluding and dissolving Organization Theory's core object - formal
organization - and, as a consequence, dissipating its practical focus
and reach. The book seeks to contribute to the goal of reviving
Organization Theory as a practical science of organizing and
rehabilitating its core object -formal organization - through a
re-examination and re-assessment of the outlook, comportment and
attitude - stance - animating its classical antecedents. This ambition
is double edged. For not only does it seek to revive Organization Theory
through reconnecting it with the practical orientation framing
classical organizational analysis, it also seeks to indicate how the
historic products of that orientation or stance still have considerable
traction for analysing and intervening in contemporary matters of
organizational concern. Not least, this 'classical organizational
stance' provides those who adopt it with a method with which to orient
themselves both in formal organizational thought and in formal
organizational life. It furnishes them with an ethos combining both
practical rationality and ethical seriousness. In this sense the book
suggest itself both as a guide to doing Organizational analysis and
doing practical organization