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`A valuable guide to major issues in the field′ - Gareth Morgan, University of York `The Handbook of Organization Studies completes the trilogy begun by two previous pathbreaking handbooks - March′s Handbook of Organizations (1965) and Nystrom and Starbuck′s Handbook of Organizational Design (1981). Like the earlier two handbooks, the editors have recruited an international group of up-and-coming junior scholars, as well as seasoned veterans, and the result is stunning... a gold mine of ideas. I wholeheartedly recommend this book′ - Howard E Aldrich, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill `A marvellous collection of up-to-date scholarship on organization studies from a whole array of perspectives. A must for any organization researcher′s bookshelf′ - Koya Azumi, Professor of Sociology, International Christian University, Tokyo `The Handbook of Organization Studies provides a much-needed synthesis of the literature and knowledge about organizations and organizing.... I recommend it as an essential reference book for business schools as well as social science departments′ - Professor Jean-Claude Thoenig, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France `This book is the most significant contribution to the study of organizations to have appeared in one volume since the classic Handbook of Organizations which James March edited thirty years ago.... This Handbook of Organization Studies should remain relevant for at least as long as its predecessor′ - John Child, Guinness Professor of Management Studies, The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge `The Handbook of Organization Studies is a stunning accomplishment. The volume forces relics of an earlier era, like me, to rethink the fields of organizations and organization studies. It captures the exciting differences that a