Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:54:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-TH: Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory 


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The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT), a
Web-based scholarly journal, is soliciting book reviews for
future editions of the journal. Appropriate books for review
might examine organizations, work, labor, management, and
environmental issues using a variety of non-traditional
approaches, including, for example, critical theory,
postmodernism, feminism and race and class analysis. EJROT would
also welcome reviews from a critical perspective of well-known
conventional books on management and organization theory. We hope
to maintain an open forum for the discussion of radical
organisation theory. 
      We encourage reviews of recent books (1995 on), though
reviews of older "classics" will also be considered. Where
appropriate, we will also accept reviews of video, film, and
World Wide Web sites. 
      Writing style should be accessible but appropriate for a
high-calibre academic journal with a theoretical orientation.
There is no fixed length for book reviews, but 1500-2500 words is
a broad guideline. APA format should be used.

For more information, please contact:
David L. Levy
EJROT Reviews Editor
University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125, USA
e-mail: levy-AT-umbsky.cc.umb.edu 
Fax: 617-287-7725

EJROT is on the web at:
http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/sm&l/journal/ejrot.htm


The books listed below would be good candidates for a review in
EJROT, but suggestions on other books are welcome. Generally, the
EJROT Reviews Editor will be able to send you a copy of the book
if you are willing to write a review.


SAGE  http://www.sage.com

Gareth Morgan, "Images of Organization", 1996 (Second edition)
 - the new edition provides a useful opportunity to review the
classic.

David Grant and Cliff Oswick (eds.) "Metaphor and Organizations",
1996

Pushkala Prasad, Albert Mills, Micheal Elmes, and Anshuman Prasad
(eds.), "Managing the Organizational Melting Pot", 1997.
 - not the usual managing diversity stuff. Contributors employ
critical theory, feminism, postmodernism, institutional theory,
etc.

Stewart Clegg and Gill Palmer, (eds.) "The Politics of Management
Knowledge", 1996.
 - politics of managerial discourse.

Maurice Punch, "Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct", 1996.
 - sociological analysis of corporate "deviance", includes case
studies from Europe.

Gibson Burrell, "Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization
Theory", 1996
 - subversive, humorous discursive analysis

W. Richard Scott, "Institutions and Organizations: Theory and
Research", 1995
 
Cliff Cheng, ed., "Masculinities in Organizations", 1996

David Collinson and Jeff Hearn, eds., "Men as Managers, Managers
as Men", 1996

Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott, "Making Sense of Management",
1996

P. B. Beaumont, "The Future of Employment Relations", 1995



JOSSEY-BASS   http://www.josseybass.com

Edwin C. Nevis and Helen G. Vassallo, 1996, "Intentional
Revolutions"
- this book claims to show you how to change the way people
define their reality, to overcome their resistance to
organizational change. Resistance is multiple realities, and how
to minimize resistance....



SUNY Press  http://www.sunypress.edu

Sharryn Kasmir (1996) "The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives,
Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town"
 - argues that Mondragon is frequently idealized in way that
ignores experiences of shop floor workers.



Walter de Gruyter  http://www.deGruyter.de

Mats Alvesson, "Communication, Power and Organization", 1996
 - Power and communication in an organization examined using
Foucault and Habermas

Robert Chia, "Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive
Practice", 1996
 - postmodernism applied to organizational theory

Gill Palmer and Stewart Clegg, Editors, "Constituting
Management", 1996
 - chapters on identity, meaning of work, gender, postmodernism,
role of markets etc. 



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