The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies

Langley and Tsoukas have gathered together a roster of thoughtful scholars who reflect on the theories, methods and applications of process analysis. For experienced scholars, it is a useful birds-eye view for reflecting on the field as a whole and on the ‘process turn’ in organizational studies. For new scholars, this volume provides a series of hand holds for becoming effective process researchers.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Ann Langley & Haridimos TsoukasPART I: PROCESS PHILOSOPHYChapter 2: Whitehead′s Process Relational Philosophy - C. Robert Mesle and Mark R. DibbenChapter 3: Henri Bergson: Toward a Philosophy of Becoming - Wahida KhandkerChapter 4: Gilles Deleuze and Process Philosophy - Keith RobinsonChapter 5: James, Dewey, and Mead: On What Must Come before All Our Inquiries - John ShotterPART II: PROCESS THEORYChapter 6: Contradictions, Dialectics and Paradoxes - Moshe FarjounChapter 7: The Practice Approach: For a Praxeology of Organisational and Management Studies - Davide Nicolini and Pedro MonteiroChapter 8: Complexity Theory and Process Organization Studies - Philip Anderson and Alan D. MeyerChapter 9: Symbolic Interactionism - Dionysios D. DionysiouChapter 10: Actor-Network Theory - Barbara CzarniawskaChapter 11: Ethnomethodology - Andrea Whittle and William HousleyChapter 12: Discourse Theory - Loizos HeracleousChapter 13: Evolutionary Theory - Geoffrey M. HodgsonPART III: PROCESS METHODOLOGYChapter 14: Ethnography and Organizational Processes - Merlijn van Hulst, Sierk Ybema and Dvora YanowChapter 15: Taking a Strong Process Approach to Analyzing Qualitative Process Data - Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Lê and Paul SpeeChapter 16: Sequential Analysis of Processes - Marshall Scott Poole, Natalie Lambert, Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio and Joseph McDonaldChapter 17: Narratives and Processuality - Anniina Rantakari and Eero VaaraChapter 18: Composing a Musical Score for Academic-Practitioner Collaborative Research - Stuart Albert and Jean M. BartunekChapter 19: History in Process Organization Studies: What, Why and How - Matthias Kipping and Juha-Antti LambergPART IV: PROCESS APPLICATIONSChapter 20: A Process Perspective on Organizational Routines - Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Claus RerupChapter 21: Sensemaking, Simplexity, and Mindfulness - Timothy Vogus and Ian ColvilleChapter 22: A Temporal Understanding of the Connections Between Organizational Culture and Identity - Tor Hernes and Majken SchultzChapter 23: Institutions as Process - Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson PhillipsChapter 24: Strategy as Practice, Process and Institution: Converging on Activity - Richard WhittingtonChapter 25: Time, temporality and Process Studies - Juliane Reinecke and Shahzad (Shaz) AnsariChapter 26: Sustainability as Process - Gail Whiteman and Steve KennedyChapter 27: Entrepreneurship as process - Todd H. Chiles, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias and Qian LiChapter 28: From the Process of Innovation to Innovation as Process - Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Arun Kumaraswamy and Philipp TuertscherChapter 29: Power and Process: The Production of ′Knowing′ Subjects and ′Known′ Objects - Cynthia Hardy and Robyn ThomasChapter 30: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Processes: A Critical Review - Krista Pettit, Mary Crossan and Dusya VeraChapter 31: Leadership Process - Gail T. FairhurstChapter 32: Organizational Communication as Process - François Cooren, Gerald Bartels and Thomas MartineChapter 33: Materiality as an Organizing Process: Toward a Process Metaphysics for Material Artifacts - Paul M. LeonardiChapter 34: Organizational Design as Process - Roger L.M. Dunbar & Beth A. BechkyChapter 35: Improvisation Processes in Organizations - Miguel Pina e Cunha, Anne S. Miner and Elena AntonacopoulouChapter 36: Cycles of Divergence and Convergence: Underlying Processes of Organization Change and Innovation - Kevin Dooley and Andrew Van de VenPART V: PROCESS PERSPECTIVESChapter 37: Process, Practices and Organizational Competitiveness: Understanding Dynamic Capabilities through A Process-Philosophical Worldview - Robert ChiaChapter 38: Process as the Becoming of Temporal Trajectory - Tor HernesChapter 39: Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research: Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction - Joep Cornelissen, Dennis Schoeneborn, and Consuelo VasquezChapter 40: Embedding Process: Situating Process in Work Relations - Hugh WillmottChapter 41: Making Process Visible: Alternatives to Boxes and Arrows - Martha S. FeldmanChapter 42: Truth and Process Studies - Robin Holt