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We provide reasons why researchers of business and management who are interested in how institutions are related to organization would want to read and use the work of Mary Douglas. One of the central problems about which management and organization theorists still debate is the extent to which the structure of institutions and organizations determines the agency afforded to individuals. We show how Douglas makes space for a treatment of institutions that avoids the usual retreat to methodological individualism that characterises these debates. This holds out the promise of reinvigorating organisational analysis in a manner that is in step with calls for focusing on organization as a way of life and with calls for revisiting the classics.
Author(s): Pierides D, Sewell G
Editor(s): Clegg S; Cunha MP;
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory
Year: 2019
Pages: 135-157
Print publication date: 12/06/2019
Online publication date: 12/06/2019
Acceptance date: 12/03/2019
Publisher: Routledge
Place Published: London
URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279591-8
DOI: 10.4324/9780429279591-8
Notes: 9780367233778 Paperback ISBN.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780815365846
