Origins of Organizing

Edited by Tuomo Peltonen, Aalto University, Finland, Hugo Gaggiotti, Associate Professor of Organization Studies, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK and Visiting Professor, Robert Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School for Social Research, New York, US and Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK and Professor of Management and Organization Studies, School of Business, James Cook University, Australia

Contents:

Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing
Tuomo Peltonen, Hugo Gaggiotti and Peter Case

PART I THEORETICAL ORIGINS
1. Chaos: The Unspeakable Other to Origins and Organizing
Gibson Burrell

2. Revisiting the sociological origins of organization theory: The forgotten legacy of Pitirim Sorokin
Tuomo Peltonen

3. Neglecting the Anthropological Origins of Organizing: causes and consequences
Hugo Gaggiotti, Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka

4. She Came and Stayed: A de Beauvoirean Approach to Organizing
Caterina Bettin and Albert J. Mills

PART II HISTORICAL ORIGINS
5. Organizing in the Roman Empire
Barbara Czarniawska

6. A Daoist epistemology for understanding an alternative origin of organizing
Wenjin Dai

7. The Origins of Organizing in the Sixteenth Century
Jose Bento da Silva and Ioanna Iordanou

8. The Quakers: Forgotten Pioneers
Donncha Kavanagh and Martin Brigham

Index