We Live In A Society Of Organisations, Organisations Which Have Profound And Pervasive Effects On Our Lives At Work And Beyond. Contemporary Society And Its Organisations Are In A Period Of Accelerated, Profound Change. In This Book, Leading Sociology And Organsational Scholars Consider How 'classic' Sociologists Can Help Make Sense Of Change. Introduction : A Social Science Which Forgets Its Founders Is Lost / Paul S. Adler -- The Value Of The Classics / Patricia H. Thornton -- Tocqueville As A Pioneer In Organization Theory / Richard Swedberg -- Marx And Organization Studies Today / Paul S. Adler -- It's Not Just For Communists Any More : Marxian Political Economy And Organizational Theory / Richard Marens -- Weber : Sintering The Iron Cage : Translation, Domination, And Rationality / Stewart Clegg, Michael Lounsbury -- Max Weber And The Ethics Of Office / Paul Du Gay -- On Organizations And Oligarchies : Michels In The Twenty-first Century / Pamela S. Tolbert, Shon R. Hiatt -- How Durkheim's Theory Of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology / Frank Dobbin -- A Durkheimian Approach To Globalization / Paul Hirsch, Peer C. Fiss, Amanda Hoel-green -- Gabriel Tarde And Organization Theory / Barbara Czarniawska -- Georg Simmel : The Individual And The Organization / Alan Scott -- Types And Positions : The Significance Of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories For Organizational Behavior / Rodabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana -- Schumpeter And The Organization Of Entrepreneurship / Markus C. Becker, Thorbjorn Knudsen -- Norbert Elias's Impact On Organization Studies / Ad Van Iterson -- Thorstein Veblen And The Organization Of The Capitalist Economy / Gary G. Hamilton, Misha Petrovic -- The Sociology Of Race : The Contributions Of W.e.b. Du Bois / Stella M. Nkomo -- Organizations And The Chicago School / Andrew Abbott -- After James On Identity / Arne Carlsen -- Reading Dewey : Some Implications For The Study Of Routine / Michael D. Cohen -- Mary Parker Follett And Pragmatist Organization / Christopher Ansell -- Peopling Organizations : The Promise Of Classic Symbolic Interactionism For An Inhabited Instutionalism / Tim Hallett, David Shulman, Gary Alan Fine -- John R. Commons : Back To The Future Of Organization Studies / Andrew H. Van De Ven, Arik Lifschitz -- The Problem Of The Corporation : Liberalism And The Large Organization / Elisabeth S. Clemens -- Bureaucratic Theory And Intellectual Renewal In Contemporary Organization Studies / Michael Reed -- The Columbia School And The Study Of Bureaucracies : Why Organizations Have Lives Of Their Own / Heather A. Haveman -- Parsons As An Organization Theorist / Charles Heckscher -- Sociological Classics And The Canon In The Study Of Organizations / Gerald F. Davis, Mayer N. Zald. Edited By Paul S. Adler. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English