The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies

Editors: Langley, Ann and Tsoukas, Haridimos
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Sage UK

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ISBN: 978-1-44-629701-8
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Management
Image Count: 33
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This volume of The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research in each of the selected areas, combined with the development of agendas for future research.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on the Editors and Contributors
  • 1 Introduction - Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas
  • PART I PROCESS PHILOSOPHY
  • 2 Whitehead's Process Relational Philosophy - C. Robert Mesle and Mark R. Dibben
  • 3 Henri Bergson: Toward a Philosophy of Becoming - Wahida Khandker
  • 4 Gilles Deleuze and Process Philosophy - Keith Robinson
  • 5 James, Dewey, and Mead: On What Must Come Before All Our Inquiries - John Shotter
  • PART II PROCESS THEORY
  • 6 Contradictions, Dialectics, and Paradoxes - Moshe Farjoun
  • 7 The Practice Approach: For a Praxeology of Organisational and Management Studies - Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro
  • 8 Complexity Theory and Process Organization Studies - Philip Anderson and Alan D. Meyer
  • 9 Symbolic Interactionism - Dionysios D. Dionysiou
  • 10 Actor-Network Theory - Barbara Czarniawska
  • 11 Ethnomethodology - Andrea Whittle and William Housley
  • 12 Discourse Theory - Loizos Heracleous
  • 13 Evolutionary Theory - Geoffrey M. Hodgson
  • PART III PROCESS METHODOLOGY
  • 14 Ethnography and Organizational Processes - Merlijn van Hulst, Sierk Ybema, and Dvora Yanow
  • 15 Taking a Strong Process Approach to Analyzing Qualitative Process Data - Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Lê, and Paul Spee
  • 16 Sequential Analysis of Processes - Marshall Scott Poole, Natalie Lambert, Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio, and Joseph McDonald
  • 17 Narratives and Processuality - Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara
  • 18 Composing a Musical Score for Academic-Practitioner Collaborative Research - Stuart Albert and Jean M. Bartunek
  • 19 History in Process Organization Studies: What, Why and How - Matthias Kipping and Juha-Antti Lamberg
  • PART IV PROCESS APPLICATIONS
  • 20 A Process Perspective on Organizational Routines - Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Claus Rerup
  • 21 Sensemaking, Simplexity, and Mindfulness - Timothy Vogus and Ian Colville
  • 22 A Temporal Understanding of the Connections between Organizational Culture and Identity - Tor Hernes and Majken Schultz
  • 23 Institutions as Process - Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson Phillips
  • 24 Strategy as Practice, Process and Institution: Turning Towards Activity - Richard Whittington
  • 25 Time, Temporality and Process Studies - Juliane Reinecke and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari
  • 26 Sustainability as Process - Gail Whiteman and Steve Kennedy
  • 27 Entrepreneurship as Process - Todd H. Chiles, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias, and Qian Li
  • 28 From the Process of Innovation to Innovation as Process - Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Philipp Tuertscher
  • 29 Power and Process: The Production of ‘Knowing’ Subjects and ‘Known’ Objects - Cynthia Hardy and Robyn Thomas
  • 30 Organizational Learning and Knowledge Processes: A Critical Review - Krista Pettit, Mary Crossan, and Dusya Vera
  • 31 Leadership Process - Gail T. Fairhurst
  • 32 Organizational Communication as Process - François Cooren, Gerald Bartels, and Thomas Martine
  • 33 Materiality as an Organizing Process: Toward a Process Metaphysics for Material Artifacts - Paul M. Leonardi
  • 34 Organization Design as Process - Roger L.M. Dunbar and Beth A. Bechky
  • 35 Improvisation Processes in Organizations - Miguel Pina e Cunha, Anne S. Miner, and Elena Antonacopoulou
  • 36 Cycles of Divergence and Convergence: Underlying Processes of Organization Change and Innovation - Kevin Dooley and Andrew Van de Ven
  • PART V PROCESS PERSPECTIVES
  • 37 Process, Practices and Organizational Competitiveness: Understanding Dynamic Capabilities through a Process-Philosophical Worldview - Robert Chia
  • 38 Process as the Becoming of Temporal Trajectory - Tor Hernes
  • 39 Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research: Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction - Joep Cornelissen, Dennis Schoeneborn, and Consuelo Vásquez
  • 40 Embedding Process: Situating Process in Work Relations - Hugh Willmott
  • 41 Making Process Visible: Alternatives to Boxes and Arrows - Martha S. Feldman
  • 42 Truth and Process Studies - Robin Holt