Stewart R Clegg 
Modern Organizations 
Organization Studies in the Postmodern World

This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist.

Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples – the production of French bread, Italian fashion and `post-Confucian′ Asian enterprises – he argues that their success cannot be reduced to `culture′ but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organizations are constructed and reproduced. This analysis is carried through in a detailed discussion of the debate over why Japanese organizations are so successful.

Spis treści

Theoretical Contrasts and International Contexts

Organizations and the Modernization of the World

Why and Where did Bureaucracy Triumph? Contingencies, Markets and Hierarchies

Ecologies, Institutions and Power in the Analysis of Organizations

French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprise

The Embeddedness of Organizational Diversities

Organizational Diversities and Rationalities

Modernist and Postmodernist Organization

Postmodern Skill Formation and Postmodern Capital Formation?

O autorze

Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.