Burrell, G. and G. Morgan (1979). Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis,, Heinemann.

• nominalism-realism (ontological)
• positivism-anti-positivism (epistemological)
• voluntarism-determinism (human nature)
• ideographic-nomothetic (methodological)
• order-stabilizing vs conflict-change

Barley's Paper on CT Scanner: Graph of ASQ Article Count over past 20 years

Gergen, K. J. (1992). "Organizational Theory in the Post-Modern Era" in M. Reed and M. Hughes. Rethinking Organizations: new directions in organization theory and analysis, Sage Publications: 207-226.

• theories don't exist apart from culture
• knowledge governed by social processes
• function of theories based on practical value

Johnson, J. L. and P. M. Podaskoff (1994). "Journal Influence in the field of management; an analysis using Salancik's index on a dependency network." Academy of Management Journal. vol. 37: p. 1392-1407.

• ASQ, ROB, ASR, ASJ
  

Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

• paradigm
• normal science
• anomaly, crisis, response, resolution

Morgan, Images of Organizations

• theories as images (mechanistic, organic)
• useful but limiting

Perrow, C. (1985). "Journaling Careers." in Publishing in the Organizational Sciences. edited by L. L. Cummings and P. J. Frost p. 96-107.

• talks about ASQ asphalt

Pfeffer, J. (1982). Organizations and Organization Theory,, Pittman.

• action as purposive, bounded, intended, goal-directed
• action as externally constrained and situational
• action as random and emergent
• units of analysis- individual/subunit and organizational (often mixed up)
• different methods for different perspectives
• individualist-structuralist

Pfeffer, J. (1993). "Barriers to the advance of organizational science: Paradigm development as a dependent variable." Academy of Management Review. vol. 18: p. 599-620.

• high paradigm brings more influence and resources
• gaining consensus in OB is important
• the elites should set the paradigms, take over and impose views
• a "weed patch than a well-tended garden"

Also continued debate between Pfeffer and Van Maanen.

Scott's Organizations Book

• rational, natural, open

Other Articles

• Barley & Tolbert on Need for Social Theory
• Rejoinder by Dick Scott