The SAGE Handbook Of Process Organization Studies

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The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research in each of the selected areas, combined with the development of agendas for future research. The Handbook is divided into five sections: Part One: Process Philosophy Part Two: Process Theory Part Three: Process Methodology Part Four: Process Applications Part Five: Process Perspectives 1. Introduction / Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas Part I. Process philosophy: 2. Whitehead's process relational philosophy / C. Robert Mesle and Mark R. Dibben; 3. Henri Bergson: toward a philosophy of becoming / Wahida Khandker; 4. Gilles Deleuze and process philosophy / Keith Robinson; 5. James, Dewey, and Mead: on what must come before all our inquiries / John Shotter Part II. Process theory: 6. Contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes / Moshe Farjoun; 7. The practice approach: for a praxeology of organisational and management studies / Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro; 8. Complexity theory and process organization studies / Philip Anderson and Alan D. Meyer; 9. Symbolic interactionism / Dionysios D. Dionysiou; 10. Actor-network theory / Barbara Czarniawska; 11. Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle and William Housley; 12. Discourse theory / Loizos Heracleous; 13. Evolutionary theory / Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Part III. Process methodology: 14. Ethnography and organizational processes / Merlijn van Hulst, Sierk Ybema, and Dvora Yanow; 15. Taking a strong process approach to analyzing qualitative process data / Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Lê, and Paul Spee; 16. Sequential analysis of processes / Marshall Scott Poole, Natalie Lambert, Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio, and Joseph McDonald; 17. Narratives and processuality / Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara; 18. Composing a musical score for academic-practitioner collaborative research / Stuart Albert and Jean M. Bartunek; 19. History in process organization studies: what, why and how / Matthias Kipping and Juha-Antti Lamberg. Part IV. Process applications: 20. A process perspective on organizational routines / Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Claus Rerup; 21. Sensemaking, simplexity, and mindfulness / Timothy Vogus and Ian Colville; 22. A temporal understanding of the connections between organizational culture and identity / Tor Hernes and Majken Schultz; 23. Institutions as process / Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson Phillips; 24. Strategy as practice, process and institution: turning towards activity / Richard Whittington; 25. Time, temporality and process studies / Juliane Reinecke and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari; 26. Sustainability as process / Gail Whiteman and Steve Kennedy; 27. Entrepreneurship as process / Todd H. Chiles, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias, and Qian Li; 28. From the process of innovation to innovation as process / Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Philipp Tuertscher; 29. Power and process: the production of 'knowing' subjects and 'known' objects / Cynthia Hardy and Robyn Thomas; 30. Organizational learning and knowledge processes: a critical review / Krista Pettit, Mary Crossan, and Dusya Vera; 31. Leadership process / Gail T. Fairhurst; 32. Organizational communication as process / Frandcois Cooren, Gerald Bartels, and Thomas Martine; 33. Materiality as an organizing process: toward a process metaphysics for material artifacts / Paul M. Leonardi; 34. Organization design as process / Roger L.M. Dunbar and Beth A. Bechky; 35. Improvisation processes in organizations / Miguel Pina e Cunha, Anne S. Miner, and Elena Antonacopoulou; 36. Cycles of divergence and convergence: underlying processes of organization change and innovation / Kevin Dooley and Andrew Van de Ven. Part V. Process perspectives: 37. Process, practices and organizational competitiveness: understanding dynamic capabilities through a process-philosophical worldview / Robert Chia; 38. Process as the becoming of temporal trajectory / Tor Hernes; 39. Deconstructing the theoretical language of process research: metaphor and metonymy in interaction / Joep Cornelissen, Dennis Schoeneborn, and Consuelo Vásquez; 40. Embedding process: situating process in work relations / Hugh Willmott; 41. Making process visible: alternatives to boxes and arrows / Martha S. Feldman; 42. Truth and process studies / Robin Holt.