The SAGE Handbook Of Process Organization Studies

✍ Scribed by Haridimos Tsoukas, Ann Langley

• Publisher: SAGE Reference
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 695
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume 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. The Handbook is divided into five sections:
Part One: Process Philosophy
Part Two: Process Theory
Part Three: Process Methodology
Part Four: Process Applications
Part Five: Process Perspectives

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction / Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas

Part I. Process philosophy:

1. Whitehead's process relational philosophy / C. Robert Mesle and Mark R. Dibben;
2. Henri Bergson: toward a philosophy of becoming / Wahida Khandker;
3. Gilles Deleuze and process philosophy / Keith Robinson;
4. James, Dewey, and Mead: on what must come before all our inquiries / John Shotter

Part II. Process theory:

1. Contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes / Moshe Farjoun;
2. The practice approach: for a praxeology of organisational and management studies / Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro;
3. Complexity theory and process organization studies / Philip Anderson and Alan D. Meyer;
4. Symbolic interactionism / Dionysios D. Dionysiou;
5. Actor-network theory / Barbara Czarniawska;
6. Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle and William Housley;
7. Discourse theory / Loizos Heracleous;
8. Evolutionary theory / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

Part III. Process methodology:

1. Ethnography and organizational processes / Merlijn van Hulst, Sierk Ybema, and Dvora Yanow;
2. Taking a strong process approach to analyzing qualitative process data / Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Lê, and Paul Spee;
3. Sequential analysis of processes / Marshall Scott Poole, Natalie Lambert, Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio, and Joseph McDonald;
4. Narratives and processuality / Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara;
5. Composing a musical score for academic-practitioner collaborative research / Stuart Albert and Jean M. Bartunek;
6. History in process organization studies: what, why and how / Matthias Kipping and Juha-Antti Lamberg.

Part IV. Process applications:

1. A process perspective on organizational routines / Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Claus Rerup;
2. Sensemaking, simplexity, and mindfulness / Timothy Vogus and Ian Colville;
3. A temporal understanding of the connections between organizational culture and identity / Tor Hernes and Majken Schultz;
4. Institutions as process / Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson Phillips;
5. Strategy as practice, process and institution: turning towards activity / Richard Whittington;
6. Time, temporality and process studies / Juliane Reinecke and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari;
7. Sustainability as process / Gail Whiteman and Steve Kennedy;
8. Entrepreneurship as process / Todd H. Chiles, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias, and Qian Li;
9. From the process of innovation to innovation as process / Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Philipp Tuertscher;
10. Power and process: the production of 'knowing' subjects and 'known' objects / Cynthia Hardy and Robyn Thomas;
11. Organizational learning and knowledge processes: a critical review / Krista Pettit, Mary Crossan, and Dusya Vera;
12. Leadership process / Gail T. Fairhurst;
13. Organizational communication as process / Frandcois Cooren, Gerald Bartels, and Thomas Martine;
14. Materiality as an organizing process: toward a process metaphysics for material artifacts / Paul M. Leonardi;
15. Organization design as process / Roger L.M. Dunbar and Beth A. Bechky;
16. Improvisation processes in organizations / Miguel Pina e Cunha, Anne S. Miner, and Elena Antonacopoulou;
17. Cycles of divergence and convergence: underlying processes of organization change and innovation / Kevin Dooley and Andrew Van de Ven.

Part V. Process perspectives:

1. Process, practices and organizational competitiveness: understanding dynamic capabilities through a process-philosophical worldview / Robert Chia;
2. Process as the becoming of temporal trajectory / Tor Hernes;
3. Deconstructing the theoretical language of process research: metaphor and metonymy in interaction / Joep Cornelissen, Dennis Schoeneborn, and Consuelo Vásquez;
4. Embedding process: situating process in work relations / Hugh Willmott;
5. Making process visible: alternatives to boxes and arrows / Martha S. Feldman;
6. Truth and process studies / Robin Holt.

✦ Subjects

Organizational Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Process Philosophy