Origins of organizing / edited by Tuomo Peltonen.

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The origins of organizing are conventionally seen as emerging from the historiographical works of Western social scientists in the early 20th century. Here, the authors address a gap in current literature by exploring previously unrecognized or marginalized global origins in both modern and ancient...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing (Publisher)
Other Authors: Peltonen, Tuomo (Editor)
Gaggiotti, Hugo (Editor)
Case, Peter, 1959- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.
Subjects:
Organizational sociology > History.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Elgar Online)
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction: in search of alternative origins of organizing / Tuomo Peltonen, Hugo Gaggiotti and Peter Case
  • Part I Theoretical origins
  • 1. Chaos: the unspeakable other to origins and organizing / Gibson Burrell
  • 2. Revisiting the sociological origins of organization theory: the forgotten legacy of Pitirim Sorokin / Tuomo Peltonen
  • 3. Neglecting the anthropological origins of organizing: causes and consequences / Hugo Gaggiotti, Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka
  • 4. She came and stayed: a de Beauvoirean Approach to organizing / Caterina Bettin and Albert J. Mills
  • Part II Historical origins
  • 5. Organizing in the Roman Empire / Barbara Czarniawska
  • 6. A Daoist epistemology for understanding an alternative origin of organizing / Wenjin Dai
  • 7. The Origins of organizing in the Sixteenth Century / Bento da Silva, Jose, Iordanou and Ioanna
  • 8. The Quakers: forgotten pioneers / Donncha Kavanagh and Martin Brighamb
  • Index.