How far is a sociology of organizations still needed?

From: Organization Studies | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Thoenig, Jean-Claude | Copyright information

Any scientific discipline experiences a life cycle. As a specific discipline, the sociology of organizations may well have reached a stage of maturity and entered a declining return of the knowledge process. This is clearly the case with what might be called its standard platform or agenda of research. A major change in recent years has been the emergence of an extended platform or domain. This raises the question: Does this emergence renew the core identity of the discipline or does it dilut...

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