Table of Contents

Introduction
Agency Theory
Alienation
Authority
Bureaucracy
Business Strategy
Complexity Science
Contested Exchange Theory
Control
Cooperativism
Corporate Governance
Decision Making
Discourse in Organizations
Environmental Uncertainty
Environment-Organization Interaction
Flexibility
Globalization
Industrial Democracy
Institutional Theory
Labor Process Theory
Life Cycle Models
Materiality
Organization Structure and Design
Organizational Change
Organizational Culture
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
Organizational Space
Postmodern Turn and Organization Studies
Power and Politics
Scientific Management
Stakeholder Theory
Storytelling and Narrative Research
Structuration Theory
Systems Theory
Technology and Organization Structure
Transaction Cost Economics

About the Author

Ann Cunliffe is Professor of Organization Studies at the Escola de Administraçâo da Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas, Brazil and Visiting Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy; Aalborg University, Denmark; and the University of Bath, UK. She previously held positions as 50th Anniversary Chair at Bradford University, UK, as Professor at the University of Leeds, UK, the University of New Mexico, USA, and California State University, USA.

Her current research interests include ethical leadership, embodied sensemaking, non-traditional qualitative research methods, and reflexive approaches to research, practice and learning. In particular, she is interested in exploring how we can engage in collaborative, responsive and ethical ways of managing organizations.

Ann’s recent publications include co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods (2018), and articles in Organizational Research Methods, the British Journal of Management, Human Relations, and the Journal of Business Ethics. She received the 2016 Lasting Impact Award from Sage Publications for her 2004 article in the Journal of Management Education and was the 2017 CMS Division Distinguished Keynote Speaker at the Academy of Management. Ann organizes the biennial Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference.

Reviews

′Luhman and Cunliffe have provided a glossary of organization theory terms from agency to storytelling to transaction cost economics. In doing so they provide an important resource to any course on organizations, so students can make their path through the terminological jungle. Each chapter is a rest stop on the journey, providing helpful hints, pointing out the dangers of the terrain and the safest paths to follow′ -
Professor David Boje
New Mexico State University ′Luhman and Cunliffe perform a valuable service, helping to capture and make accessible the richness of current organizational theory and behaviour′ -
Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management
Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Austrailia