Stewart R Clegg
Biographic Data
| ID | 249284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart R Clegg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart R |
| FAMILY NAME | Clegg |
| SIGNATURE | CLEGG S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Organizational memorialization: Spatial history and legitimation as chiasms
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing. Design/methodology/approach The authors briefly review the existing management and organization studies (MOS) literature on legitimacy, space and history; engage with the work of Merleau-Ponty to expl…
Management
At the turn of the nineteenth century scientific management sought to make work as robotic and automatic as possible; by the early years of the twenty‐first century the use of artificial intelligence and robotics made android dreams real. In between management sought to manage the twin aims of efficiency and commitment. Contemporaneously, however, efficiency and commitment are increasingly delivered through two kinds of self‐management. For the c…
Bureaucracy and Public Sector Governmentality
Bureaucracy is organization by rules, organized on hierarchical, centralized, and routinized lines. Increasingly, in public sector organizations, government by rules is being replaced by governmentality: forms of government that are more facilitative and less restrictive, and that rely on the constitution of a subject mentality by those who will govern themselves
Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects
A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical f…
Conceptualizing Historical Organization Studies
The promise of a closer union between organizational and historical research has long been recognized. However, its potential remains unfulfilled: the authenticity of theory development expected by organization studies and the authenticity of historical veracity required by historical research place exceptional conceptual and empirical demands on researchers. We elaborate the idea of historical organization studies—organizational research that dr…
Domination
Weber is the main theorist of domination. In English translation, much of Weber's work appears more confused than it is, because of the misspecification of cases of domination as authority. Matters of translation are clarified and future directions suggested in terms of research into the domination of ultimate values and the organizations' creation and reproduction of consent to domination
Smells like team spirit: Opening a paradoxical black box
Despite the common usage of the term, researchers and practitioners have not been able properly to explain what team spirit is and what benefits and drawbacks it might bring to teams. Several definitions have been proposed, but not in a consistent manner. Using a qualitative approach, we worked with one football team to shed light on how individuals experience and characterize team spirit. Our results suggest that team spirit is built around four…
Making strategy matter: Social theory, knowledge interests and business education
The tensions and challenges facing business education frame this paper, which takes a critical look at the historical evolution of business school education in the context of the present conjecture, with a particular emphasis on the role social theory can play in the analysis of strategy and ethics. Flyvbjerg's phronesis and Selznick's sociology are deployed to address the challenges facing business schools and their place in higher education. Ka…
Conclusion: Representations
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
The Sociology of Organizations
DNA and the politics of truth in socially organized life
We apply a representation of the double helix to explain how truth is managed in the social organization of life. One chain, representing context, is made up of the three materialities through which we move — discourses, time and space. The other chain, representing agency, comprises identity, distinct capitals and practices. The chains are fused by horizontal rods, which represent capillaries of power relating the elemental chains by binding, wi…
Violence and Workplace Bullying: What Are an Organization's Ethical Responsibilities
Understood as an act of violence intentionally perpetuated by one person over another, bullying is a direct affront to ethics, especially when ethics is seen to be grounded in a primary relationship with and responsibility for other people. Existing research has attended largely to providing individualized rather than organizational explanations of bullying and has not adequately interrogated bullying in relation to ethics. With this paper, we ad…
Invisible walls’ and ‘silent hierarchies’: A case study of power relations in an architecture firm
In this article we investigate how power relates to the production of creative identities and outcomes. We report on an in-depth case study of an award-winning creative architecture firm. Our data show how talk about creativity and the creative identities of architects can be analysed as effects of power. Theoretically, our study represents an investigation into the disciplining of professional architects’ discourse about their selves, their orga…
Ethics and power in business schools and organizations
The history of the business school as an institution stretches back 127 years to its foundations in the Wharton School in Philadelphia. Initially, it was an explicitly ethical project, centred on an ethic of professionalism, an ethics that was never stabilized and settled. Instead, a managerial ethic of the organization man was established in the USA during the post‐war ascendancy and mimesis of the institution. From the 1980s onwards, in a respo…
The Sage Handbook of Power
'Power to' versus 'Power over' in Consensual, Functionalist and Conflict Theory PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD 'Power to' and 'Power over' - Gerhard Gohler Rational-Choice Perspectives - Keith Dowding Liberal Theories - Peter Morriss Democratic Theories - Charles Tilly Power and Structuration Theory - Rob Stones Power and Discourse: Towards an Anti-Foundationalist Concept of Power - Jacob Torfing Actor-Network Theory - Rolland Munro Power, Efficacy …
Dishing the dirt: Gossiping in organizations
In an exercise in social theory, rather than an empirical investigation, we concentrate on the role of gossip - spreading 'news about the affairs of another' - in relation to the dynamics of power in organizations. Gossip has often been seen in functional terms, as both positive and negative for the organization. In this paper we challenge this functionalist approach. Gossip can be associated with what Freud called the narcissism of minor differe…
Power, Rationality and Legitimacy in Public Organizations
In this paper we propose answers to the research question: how does power shape the construction of legitimacy in the context of public organizations? We suggest that while organizational structures of dominancy will be embedded, not all structures of dominancy align with those that are normatively presented as legitimate and authoritative. Such situations make the creation and sustenance of legitimacy problematic for organizational action. This …
Organizational Literature, Francophone
The politics of gossip and denial in interorganizational relations
Organizational gossip has largely been discussed in terms of effects at the individual level. In this article we turn our attention to the organization level. The article makes a research contribution that addresses gossip that spreads fact-based rumours about organizations in terms of their shifting role in circuits of power. The research question asks what happens when organizations officially formulate themselves as doing one thing while other…
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
Power and learning in managing a multi‐stakeholder organization: An initiative to reduce air pollution in Ontario, Canada, through trading carbon credits
The paper explores a case study of a multi‐party collaboration that used learning in an inter‐organizational context to address an environmental problem by experimenting with emission reduction credits trading. Learning was associated with politics: individual learning with non‐decision‐making or two‐dimensional power, while inter‐organizational learning with three‐dimensional power and the construction of hegemony, while strategic institutional …
Ideal Type
The notion of an ideal type is best known to sociologists through the work of Max Weber, although it was a term in common usage in nineteenth‐century German historical social sciences. It was designed to solve the problem of comparison. A historical event cannot be described without reference to the persons involved and to the place and date of its occurrence. Thus, all historical events were unique and one could only tell specific local stories.…
The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies
Learning/Becoming/Organizing
In this paper we rethink and reframe organizational learning in terms of organizational becoming. We see these concepts as two mutually implicating ways of exploring and simultaneously constituting the phenomena of organization. Bearing in mind that the understanding of organization is simultaneously a question of the organization of understanding, we reflect on the complex interrelation between thinking and organizing. In order to connect the pr…
Bringing Space Back in: Organizing the Generative Building
In this article, we re.ect on architecture and management and organization theory, in terms of their mutual implications. We focus especially on a tacit implication in mainstream organization theory, which has an architectural genesis. In the past, management has been largely undergirded by a Cartesian rationality, one seen most clearly in the argument that structure follows strategy. Architecturally, this Cartesianism is present in the injunctio…
Management paradoxes: A relational view
Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on t…
Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects
A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical f…
Governmentality Matters: Designing an Alliance Culture of Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Managing Projects
The concept of governmentality was developed by Michel Foucault to address the specificity of contemporary neo-liberal forms of governance - premised on the active consent and subjugation of subjects, rather than their oppression, domination or external control. These neo-liberal forms of governance are evident in new forms of alliance contracting in the construction industry. We review the major innovations in organization form in the sector, be…
Invisible walls’ and ‘silent hierarchies’: A case study of power relations in an architecture firm
In this article we investigate how power relates to the production of creative identities and outcomes. We report on an in-depth case study of an award-winning creative architecture firm. Our data show how talk about creativity and the creative identities of architects can be analysed as effects of power. Theoretically, our study represents an investigation into the disciplining of professional architects’ discourse about their selves, their orga…
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
Radical reformism: Towards Critical Ecological Modernization
According to a specialized research area within environmental sociology - ecological modernization theory - the shift towards seeking to protect the environment constitutes a broadly emergent sociological phenomenon: the radicalization of modernity. The understanding of the fundamentals of such phenomenon is, therefore, crucial for both the practice and theorization of organization and environment . This is the main reason why this paper seeks to…
Power, Rationality and Legitimacy in Public Organizations
In this paper we propose answers to the research question: how does power shape the construction of legitimacy in the context of public organizations? We suggest that while organizational structures of dominancy will be embedded, not all structures of dominancy align with those that are normatively presented as legitimate and authoritative. Such situations make the creation and sustenance of legitimacy problematic for organizational action. This …
The politics of gossip and denial in interorganizational relations
Organizational gossip has largely been discussed in terms of effects at the individual level. In this article we turn our attention to the organization level. The article makes a research contribution that addresses gossip that spreads fact-based rumours about organizations in terms of their shifting role in circuits of power. The research question asks what happens when organizations officially formulate themselves as doing one thing while other…
Puritans, Visionaries and Survivors
All readings take place in the here-and-now, even of texts written back there and then. Nowhere in management and organization theory has this been truer of anyone than Max Weber. Unread in English during his lifetime, it was nearly 30 years after his death before his ideas had much impact. When they did, they were read in a context and tradition years away from those in which they were conceived. And, ever since, they have been subject to system…
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
Violence and Workplace Bullying: What Are an Organization's Ethical Responsibilities
Understood as an act of violence intentionally perpetuated by one person over another, bullying is a direct affront to ethics, especially when ethics is seen to be grounded in a primary relationship with and responsibility for other people. Existing research has attended largely to providing individualized rather than organizational explanations of bullying and has not adequately interrogated bullying in relation to ethics. With this paper, we ad…
Vita Contemplativa: A Life in Part
Life, art and science are irremediably intertwined: how, where and with whom one shares the brief moments of existence necessarily affect what one thinks, how one writes, and what one will address. Being a scholar is a vocation, as Weber knew only too well, in which science, ethics and art blend; sometimes seamlessly, sometimes not. None who live an intellectual and public life are immune to the normal glosses of the sociology of knowledge and th…
Smells like team spirit: Opening a paradoxical black box
Despite the common usage of the term, researchers and practitioners have not been able properly to explain what team spirit is and what benefits and drawbacks it might bring to teams. Several definitions have been proposed, but not in a consistent manner. Using a qualitative approach, we worked with one football team to shed light on how individuals experience and characterize team spirit. Our results suggest that team spirit is built around four…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Making strategy matter: Social theory, knowledge interests and business education
The tensions and challenges facing business education frame this paper, which takes a critical look at the historical evolution of business school education in the context of the present conjecture, with a particular emphasis on the role social theory can play in the analysis of strategy and ethics. Flyvbjerg's phronesis and Selznick's sociology are deployed to address the challenges facing business schools and their place in higher education. Ka…
Dishing the dirt: Gossiping in organizations
In an exercise in social theory, rather than an empirical investigation, we concentrate on the role of gossip - spreading 'news about the affairs of another' - in relation to the dynamics of power in organizations. Gossip has often been seen in functional terms, as both positive and negative for the organization. In this paper we challenge this functionalist approach. Gossip can be associated with what Freud called the narcissism of minor differe…
Transformations of Corporate Culture: Experiences of Japanese Enterprises
DNA and the politics of truth in socially organized life
We apply a representation of the double helix to explain how truth is managed in the social organization of life. One chain, representing context, is made up of the three materialities through which we move — discourses, time and space. The other chain, representing agency, comprises identity, distinct capitals and practices. The chains are fused by horizontal rods, which represent capillaries of power relating the elemental chains by binding, wi…
Ethics and power in business schools and organizations
The history of the business school as an institution stretches back 127 years to its foundations in the Wharton School in Philadelphia. Initially, it was an explicitly ethical project, centred on an ethic of professionalism, an ethics that was never stabilized and settled. Instead, a managerial ethic of the organization man was established in the USA during the post‐war ascendancy and mimesis of the institution. From the 1980s onwards, in a respo…
The Politics of Management Knowledge
Apros Conference, 3-9 April, 1988, Hong Kong: Firms, Management, the State and Economic Cultures
Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965
1900--1914 Birthplace The place The people The economy The politics Childhood The family home The Edwardian baby Mothers and fathers Play School 1914--1926 War and peace I Richmond goes to war: 1914--1918 Peace and problems: 1919--1926 Youth Work Morals Fun 1927--1939 Depression and decay Crisis: 1927--1930 Sepsis: 1931--1934 Convalescence: 1935--1939 Young marrieds The Depression and private life Marriage and childbirth 1939--1955 War and peace …
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The End of Organized Capitalism
End of Organized Capitalism argues that despite Marx s and Weber s insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered we now live in an era of disorganized capitalism. The book is devoted to a systematic examination of the shift to disorganized capitalism in five Western nations (Britain, the United States, France, West Germany, and Sweden). Through the analysis of space, class, and culture, Lash and Urry portray the restructur…
‘Post-Confucianism’, Social Democracy and Economic Culture
Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures
Dominant Ideologies
Narrative, Power, and Social Theory
Agency and Organization: Towards an Organizational Theory of Society
Surveillance, Power and Modernity
Transformations of Corporate Culture: Experiences of Japanese Enterprises
The Politics of Management Knowledge
The Political Ecology of Organizations: Toward a Framework for Analyzing Business-Environment Relationships
The authors propose a framework to analyze the terrain of political relationships and actions in which environmental strategies and practices are embedded. The framework constitutes the political ecology of organizations. The concept of an organizational field is proposed as the optimal level for the analysis of business-environment relationships. Central to the framework is an anatomy of power (a mapping of the structuring of power relations). T…
The career motivation of female executives in the Hong Kong public sector
Reports a study of female executives (n = 30) working in the public sector in Hong Kong. The research captures a set of organisational practices in transition: from a colonial to a post‐colonial setting, and from a bureaucracy that offered jobs for life to one that offers them on contract terms. The concept of career motivation is explored in the study through three dimensions of career resilience, career insight, and career identity. Overall, yo…
Once upon a Time in the Bureaucracy: Power and Public Sector Management
Management and organization paradoxes
Management paradoxes: A relational view
Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on t…
Governmentality Matters: Designing an Alliance Culture of Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Managing Projects
The concept of governmentality was developed by Michel Foucault to address the specificity of contemporary neo-liberal forms of governance - premised on the active consent and subjugation of subjects, rather than their oppression, domination or external control. These neo-liberal forms of governance are evident in new forms of alliance contracting in the construction industry. We review the major innovations in organization form in the sector, be…
Vignette: Case Studies in Construction: Recollections of an Accidental Researcher
Bringing Space Back in: Organizing the Generative Building
In this article, we re.ect on architecture and management and organization theory, in terms of their mutual implications. We focus especially on a tacit implication in mainstream organization theory, which has an architectural genesis. In the past, management has been largely undergirded by a Cartesian rationality, one seen most clearly in the argument that structure follows strategy. Architecturally, this Cartesianism is present in the injunctio…
Learning/Becoming/Organizing
In this paper we rethink and reframe organizational learning in terms of organizational becoming. We see these concepts as two mutually implicating ways of exploring and simultaneously constituting the phenomena of organization. Bearing in mind that the understanding of organization is simultaneously a question of the organization of understanding, we reflect on the complex interrelation between thinking and organizing. In order to connect the pr…
Puritans, Visionaries and Survivors
All readings take place in the here-and-now, even of texts written back there and then. Nowhere in management and organization theory has this been truer of anyone than Max Weber. Unread in English during his lifetime, it was nearly 30 years after his death before his ideas had much impact. When they did, they were read in a context and tradition years away from those in which they were conceived. And, ever since, they have been subject to system…
Vita Contemplativa: A Life in Part
Life, art and science are irremediably intertwined: how, where and with whom one shares the brief moments of existence necessarily affect what one thinks, how one writes, and what one will address. Being a scholar is a vocation, as Weber knew only too well, in which science, ethics and art blend; sometimes seamlessly, sometimes not. None who live an intellectual and public life are immune to the normal glosses of the sociology of knowledge and th…
Radical reformism: Towards Critical Ecological Modernization
According to a specialized research area within environmental sociology - ecological modernization theory - the shift towards seeking to protect the environment constitutes a broadly emergent sociological phenomenon: the radicalization of modernity. The understanding of the fundamentals of such phenomenon is, therefore, crucial for both the practice and theorization of organization and environment . This is the main reason why this paper seeks to…
The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies
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