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.
Table of Content
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?
About the author
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.
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