Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations

Edited by Mary Godwyn, Professor of Sociology, History and Society Division, Babson College, US

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations 1Mary GodwynPART I SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS1 The organization of higher education: an overview of sociologicalresearch into universities as organizations 13Klarissa Lueg and Angela Graf2 Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework oforganization 30Michael Grothe-Hammer, Héloïse Berkowitz and Olivier Berthod3 A critical management studies approach to big data 54Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard4 Carceral goals: the role of corrections officers in organizational goal attainment 73Madeline McPherson and Danielle S. Rudes5 Do organizations have a purpose? The symbolic constructivism test 87Jean-Pierre Chanteau6 Organizational legitimacy and legitimizing myths 107Martijn Boersma7 Dialectical network analysis: a critical approach for researchingnetworks in management and organization studies 125Martha Emilie Ehrich8 The importance of empathy and compassion in organizations: why thereis so little, and why we need more 145Fiona Meechan, Leo McCann and Sir Cary Cooper9 Where words speak louder than actions: values, strategy and action inglobalizing education – how successful IB schools are made 164Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Tony Bush10 Exploring the connections between critical and contemporary socialtheory and the sociology of culture 188Dustin Garlitz11 Entrepreneurial hybridity: concept and context in creative and culturalorganizations 208Jaleesa Renee Wells12 Theory, practice and bricolage: recombobulating agencies andreorienting resistance to neoliberalization of the (post-) welfare state 221Christopher N. Walker13 A world polity view on reorganization and institutional change innatural resources management 242Mohammad Al-Saidi14 The influence of organizational structures on police decision-making onstop, question and frisk 260Muneeba Azam, Christine Sim and Danielle S. RudesPART II EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: WORKPLACE EXPERIENCESAND CASE STUDIES15 Rationalizing work through occupational communities in independentgames development 276Adrian Wright and Dorota Marsh16 Religion at work: the Quaker paradox 293Mark Read17 Charisma and charismatic leadership in organizations 311Dinara Tokbaeva18 Organizations and power: a critical evaluation of the rise ofperformance measurement 329Guy Redden19 Autonomist leadership and organizational practice in leaderless street bands 347Meghan Elizabeth Kallman20 Contemporizing the social organization of parole: a critical assessment 367Simon I. Singer and Stuti S. Kokkalera21 Professionalization and the politicization of civil society organizationsin Sierra Leone 384Michelle Reddy22 Getting real about research: lessons learned from a worker trainingevaluation project 399Deborah B. Smith23 Career development opportunities: a sociological and practitionerexploration of organizational commitment factors, theories, and outcomes 417Patricia Sullivan, Andrew Creed, Ambika Zutshi and David C. Lane24 Resistance and resilience among tattoo workers 434David C. Lane and Jacob T. FosterPART III ORGANIZATIONS AS MESO-LEVEL MEDIATORS OFINDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL OUTCOMES25 Synergies between school leaders and communities in challengingurban schools: a review of organizational dynamics and the urbanschools’ continuum 457Maricela Guzmán and Leonardo Oliver Ortiz26 Critical realist metatheory and the sociology of organizations: usingcontrastive explanation to explain personal internet use at work 475Julie Monroe, Steve Vincent and Ana Lopes27 Exploring relations of power in Quakers’ alternative forms of organizing 491Stephen Allen28 The dialectic of changing corporate masks: from profit maximizers topredators to socially responsible global leaders 509Yon Jung Choi and Connie L. McNeely29 Organizing values: the principles of rationalization and individualization 528Hannah Mormann, Raimund Hasse and Nadine ArnoldIndex