Religion and organization theory

Religion and organization theory / edited by Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury.

Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as par...

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Other Authors: Tracey, Paul, 1974-, Phillips, Nelson, Lounsbury, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014.
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations ; 41.
Subjects:
Organization > Religious aspects.
Management > Religious aspects.
Religion and sociology.
sociology of religion.
Organizational theory & behaviour.
Society & culture: general.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Gestion d'entreprises.
Management > Religious aspects
Religion and sociology
Organisationssoziologie
Religion
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Table of Contents:
  • Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations / Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury
  • God on management : the world's largest religions, the theological turn, and organization and management theory and practice / Bruno Dyck
  • Religion in organizations : cognition and behavior / Gary Weaver, Jason Stansbury
  • Myths to work by : redemptive self-narratives and generative agency for organizational change / W.E. Douglas Creed, Rich Dejordy, Jaco Lok
  • Organizational form, structure and religious organizations / C.R. Hinings, Mia Raynard
  • Pastor practices in the era of megachurches : new organizational practices and forms for a changing institutional environment / Marvin Washington, Harry Van Buren III, Karen Patterson
  • Divine institution : Max Weber's value spheres and institutional theory / Roger Friedland
  • Productive resistance : a study of change, emotions, and identity in the context of the apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious, 2008-2012 / Simona Giorgi, Margaret Guider, Jean Bartunek
  • Serving two masters : transformative resolutions to institutional contradictions / Richard DeJordy [and others]
  • The institutional complexity of religious mutual funds : appreciating the uniqueness of societal logics / Jared Peifer
  • The devil's advocate and the church : building adaptable organizations / Paolo Parigi
  • Organizing belief : interfaith social change organizations in the religious environmental movement / Dina Biscotti, Nicole Woolsey Biggart.

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