List of Figures. Notes on the Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1. The Discourse of Organization Studies: Dissensus, Politics and Paradigms: R. Westwood and S. Clegg. Part I: Foundations:. 2. Organization Studies: a Discipline or Field?. Commentary: What Kind of Science Should OS Strive to Be?. From Fields to Science: Can Organization Studies Make the Transition? Bill McKelvey, University of California Los Angeles. Paradigm Plurality: Exploring Past, Present and Future Trends: Mihaela Kelemen, Keele University, and John Hassard, UMIST. 3. Ontology. Commentary: Leta s Get Ontological. Order is Free: On the Ontological Status of Organizations: Kimberly B. Boal,Texas Tech University, James G. Hunt, Texas Tech University, and Stephen J. Jaros, Southern University. Ontology: Organizations as World--Making: Robert Chia, University of Exeter. 4. Epistemology. Commentary: On Being Positive and Becoming Constructivist. Position Statement for Positivism: Lex Donaldson, University of New South Wales. Social Constructionism and Organization Studies: Barbara Czarniawska, Goteburg University. 5. Methodology. Commentary: Ironic Authenticity and Paradoxical Constructivism. From Subjectivity to Objectivity: A Constructivist Account of Objectivity in Organization Theory: William McKinley, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. From Objectivity to Subjectivity. Confession of a Counter--Modernist: Pursuing Subjective Authenticity in Organizational Research: Peter Case, Oxford Brookes University. Part II: Frames:. 6. Organization: Environment. Commentary: Enacting/Institutionalizing. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing: Karl E. Weick, University of Michigan. Enactment as an Institutional Change Mechanism: P. Devereaux Jennings, University of British Columbia, and Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta. 7. Power and Institutions. Commentary: The Dynamics of Institution. The Problem of Order Revisited: Towards a More Critical Institutional Perspective: Michael Lounsbury, Cornell University. Power, Discourse and Institutions: Institutional Theory and the Challenge of Critical Discourse Analysis: Nelson Phillips, University of Cambridge. 8. Globalization. Commentary: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Globalization. The Disorganization of Inclusion: Globalization as Process: Barbara Parker, Seattle University. Globalization and the Organizations of Exclusion in Advanced Capitalism: Marc T. Jones, Macquarie University. Part III: Structure and Culture:. 9. Structure. Commentary: Organization Structure. Structure: Bob Hinings, University of Alberta. Disorganization: Rolland Munro, Keele University. 10. Culture. Commentary: Making Sense of Culture. The Case for Culture: Neal M. Ashkanasy, The University of Queensland. Instantiative vs Entitiative Culture: The Case for Culture as Process: Andrew Chan, City University of Hong Kong. Part IV: Identity and Relationships:. 11. Gender and Identity. Commentary: Non--debating Gender. Theorizing Gender and Organizing: Silvia Gherardi,Trento University, Judi Marshall, University of Bath, Albert J. Mills, St Marya s University. 12. Trust. Commentary: Trust Organizational Psychosis Versus the Virtues of Trust. The Virtues of Prudent Trust: Roderick M. Kramer, Stanford University. Foola d with Hope, Men Favour the Deceit or: Can We Trust in Trust? Burkard Sievers, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal. 13. Question Time: Notes on Altercation Stephen Linstead. Index.
