In:The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies
Edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith
[Advances in Organization Studies 10] 2002
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 29 October 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/aios.10.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: Norbert Elias and the civilized organization
Part I: Organizing Discourse
1. The development of meeting behaviour in modern organizations and the rise of an upper class of professional chairpersons
2. Blame and praise gossip in organizations: Established, outsiders and the civilising process
3. The humiliating organisation: The functions and dysfunctions of degradation
Part II: Negotiating Boundaries
4. About individual autonomy and the relational self: The performance of privacy in contemporary organizations
5. Figurational sociology, monopolization and corporate governance
6. Boundary behaviour and organizational dynamics
Part III: Crossing Cultures
7. From the socio-historical macro model to organizational behaviour: A comparative study of coordination in organisations in France and Germany
8. The evolution of management theories in China: An Eliasian analysis
9. Cultivating Indian management: Institutions, subjectivity, and the nature of knowledge
Part IV: Theorizing Practice
10. Norbert Elias as organizational sociologist
11. Elias, organizatons and ecology
12. Management and organization: Does Elias give us something to hold on to?
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