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Clegg, Stewart R. Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World. London; Newbury
Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1990.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
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| Acknowledgements | vii |
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| 1. Theoretical Contrasts and International Contexts
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| Organizations and modernity | 2 |
| An argument in several movements | 5 |
| Organizations and postmodernity | 9 |
| Methodological modernism and postmodernism: objects of
analysis | 19 |
| Postmodern futures | 22 |
| Conclusion | 23 |
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| 2. Organizations and the Modernization of the World
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| Modernity and organization | 25 |
| Max Weber and the analysis of organizations | 27 |
| The iron cage of bureaucracy | 29 |
| The variable tendencies of bureaucracy | 33 |
| Loosening the iron cage | 41 |
| Conclusion | 48 |
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| 3.Why and Where did Bureaucracy Triumph?
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| Organizations conceptualized as systems | 51 |
| Inside the iron cage, enmeshed by unavoidable contingencies | 53 |
| Efficiency rules, OK? | 58 |
| Contingencies, adaptation and efficiency | 69 |
| Conclusion | 73 |
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| 4. Ecologies, Institutions and Power in the Analysis
of Organizations | 75 |
| Population ecology perspective | 75 |
| The institutionalist perspective | 80 |
| The power perspective | 84 |
| The interpenetration of power/institutions | 98 |
| Comparing perspectives: an empirical test | 100 |
| Conclusion | 105 |
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| 5. French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian
Enterprise | 107 |
| French bread | 108 |
| Conceptions of action and economic embeddedness | 116 |
| Italian fashion: the united colours of Benetton | 120 |
| Variations of organization form in East Asian enterprises:
the limits of under-socialized accounts of economic action | 125 |
| The Confucian tradition applied to East Asian enterprises:
the limits of over-socialized conceptions of economic action | 132 |
| Japanese organizations in historical perspective | 140 |
| Conclusion | 149 |
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| 6.Organizational Diversities and Rationalities
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| Back to basics: economic embeddedness, institutional
frameworks and modes of rationality | 154 |
| Ethnicity and family as resources for rationality in
East Asia | 163 |
| Institutional frameworks as resources for rationality
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East Asia | 168 |
| Conclusion | 174 |
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| 7. Modernist and Postmodernist Organization
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| Bureaucracy and Fordism: the modernist mix | 177 |
| Postmodern organizations? | 180 |
| Organizational imperatives | 184 |
| Organization imperatives and organizational representations | 203 |
| Conclusion | 206 |
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| 8. Postmodern Skill and Capital Formation?
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| Turning Japanese? Debates on flexible manufacturing as
the technical core of postmodern organization | 208 |
| The practice of Swedish social democracy: other postmodern
possibilities? | 220 |
| Conclusion | 233 |
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| References | 236 |
| Index | 255 |
