From Pirates to Drug Lords or Studying Organization

From Pirates to Drug Lords: The Post-Cold War Caribbean Security Environment

Author: Michael C Desch

This book examines the crucial and timeless impact Caribbean countries have on the United States and the world, and the methods they have been employing to consolidate their democracies, advance prosperity, and maintain the peace through international cooperation among themselves. Its primary aim is to discuss the dominant threat perceptions and security priorities of regional governments, the varied mechanisms in place to promote regional collective action, and the future agenda of U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean. Rooted in an historical analysis of continuity and change in the Caribbean's international subsystem, the book analyzes the Caribbean within a broader international pattern, marking a tension in world affairs between the global and the local. In addition, it explores the challenges to governments and peoples in the region posed by changes in its political economy.

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Seven contributions from the October 1995 workshop held at the Center for International Affairs look at the dominant threat perceptions and security priorities of regional governments in the Caribbean Basin, the mechanisms for promoting regional collective action in the area, and the future agenda of US foreign policy toward the Caribbean, and especially Haiti and Cuba. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Studying Organization: Theory and Method

Author: Cynthia Hardy

In this, the first of a two-volume paperback edition of the landmark Handbook of Organization Studies, editors Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter R. Nord survey the field of organization studies. Central to the enterprise has been a concern to reflect and honor the manifest diversity of the field, including recognition of the extent to which the very notion of a single field of organization studies is debated. Part I locates the study of organization by reviewing some of the most significant theoretical paradigms to have shaped our understanding. Part II reflects on the relationships between theory and research in organization studies. The Study of Organization is an ideal volume around which to build courses on organization theory and research methodology.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYSIS Organizational Theorizing - Michael Reed
An Historically Contested Terrain The Normal Science of Structural Contingency Theory - Lex Donaldson Organizational Ecology - Joel A C Baum Organizational Economics - Jay B Barney and William Hesterly
Understanding the Relationship between Organizations and Economic Analysis The Individual in Organizational Studies - Walter R Nord and Suzy Fox
The Great Disappearing Act?
The Institutionalization of Institutional Theory - Pamela S Tolbert and Lynne G Zucker Critical Theory and Postmodernism - Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz
Approaches to Organizational Studies From the 'Woman's' Point of View - Maria B Cal[ac]as and Linda Smircich
Feminist Approaches to Organization Studies PART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH, THEORY AND PRACTICE Data in Organizational Studies - Ralph Stablein Action Research for the Study of Organizations - Colin Eden and Chris Huxham Emotion and Organizing - Stephen Fineman Exploring the Aesthetic Side of Organizational Life - Pasquale Gagliardi Images of Time in Work and Organization - John Hassard The Organizational Culture War Games - Joanne Martin and Peter Frost
A Struggle for Intellectual Dominance Some Dare Call It Power - Cynthia Hardy and Stewart R Clegg Normal Science, Paradigms, Metaphors, Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis - Gibson Burrell The Owl of Minerva - Richard Marsden and Barbara Townley
Reflections on Theory in Practice Representations - Stewart R Clegg and Cynthia Hardy