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Organizations are central actors of modern society. No understanding of our world is complete without a theory of how they work. Successful organizations must engage in power-projects. Such is the overarching argument of this volume, a collection of papers by many of the world's leading social scientists and organizational scholars.

Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets

List of Contributors.

Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets: Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda.

Researching Organizational Elites: A Critical Realist Perspective.

The Polyarchic Bureaucracy: Cooperative Resistance in the Workplace and the Construction of a New Political Structure of Organizations.

The Limit of Bureaucratic Power in Organizations: The Case of the Chinese Bureaucracy.

Murky Power: "Think Tanks" as Boundary Organizations.

Laboring for the Man: Augmenting Authority in a Voluntary Association.

Conceptualizing Power in Organizations.

Dominant Ideological Modes of Rationality: Organizations as Arenas of Struggle Over Members' Categorization Devices.

Scenes from a Power Struggle: The Rise of Retail Investors in the US Stock Market.

Targeting Organizations: Private and Contentious Politics.

A Political-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Strategic Action.

Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets.

Research in the sociology of organizations.

Research in the sociology of organizations.

Copyright page.

Advisory Board.