The Civilized Organization

Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies

Editors

Ad van Iterson | University of Maastricht

Willem Mastenbroek | Free University of Amsterdam

Tim Newton | University of Exeter

Dennis Smith | Loughborough University

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This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective, inspired by the work of Norbert Elias (1897-1990), it becomes clear that many 'new' types of organizations are often variations on an old theme.

Elias gives us considerable purchase on current debates through his emphasis on long-term historical perspectives, his highlighting of issues of power, emotion and subjectivity, his interweaving of analysis at the level of the state, the organization, groups, and individuals, his alternative 'take' on issues of agency and structure, and his relevance to a wide range of current organization theories.

The contributions show the current relevance of Elias's work in numerous fields of organizational analysis such as the sociology of finance and markets, the comparative and cross-cultural study of organization, comparative management development, organizational meetings, organizational boundaries, gossip and privacy in organizations, emotion in organizations, and the significance of humiliation within organizations.

It is, indeed, "time for Elias"!

[Advances in Organization Studies, 10] 2002. xxviii, 251 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 January 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/aios.10

Table of Contents

Introduction: Norbert Elias and the civilized organization

Tim Newton and Dennis Smith | pp. vii–xxviii

Part I: Organizing Discourse | pp. 1–2

1. The development of meeting behaviour in modern organizations and the rise of an upper class of professional chairpersons

Wilbert van Vree | pp. 3–24

2. Blame and praise gossip in organizations: Established, outsiders and the civilising process

Joseph Soeters and Ad van Iterson | pp. 25–40

3. The humiliating organisation: The functions and dysfunctions of degradation

Dennis Smith | pp. 41–57

Part II: Negotiating Boundaries | pp. 59–60

4. About individual autonomy and the relational self: The performance of privacy in contemporary organizations

Marja Gastelaars | pp. 61–83

5. Figurational sociology, monopolization and corporate governance

Ruud Stokvis | pp. 85–98

6. Boundary behaviour and organizational dynamics

Tor Hernes | pp. 99–115

Part III: Crossing Cultures | pp. 117–118

7. From the socio-historical macro model to organizational behaviour: A comparative study of coordination in organisations in France and Germany

Tatiana Globokar | pp. 119–130

8. The evolution of management theories in China: An Eliasian analysis

Stephen Chen | pp. 131–149

9. Cultivating Indian management: Institutions, subjectivity, and the nature of knowledge

Nidhi Srinivas | pp. 151–169

Part IV: Theorizing Practice | pp. 171–172

10. Norbert Elias as organizational sociologist

Willem Mastenbroek | pp. 173–188

11. Elias, organizatons and ecology

Tim Newton | pp. 189–204

12. Management and organization: Does Elias give us something to hold on to?

Willem Mastenbroek | pp. 205–218

Notes | pp. 219–224

Index | pp. 247–255

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