The Civilized Organization Norbert Elias and the future of Organization Studies
Advances in Organization Studies Advances in Organization Studies includes cutting-edge work in comparative management and intercultural comparison, studies of organizational culture, communication, and aesthetics, as well as in the area of interorganizational collaboration — strategic alliances, joint ventures, networks and collaborations of all kinds, where comparative, intercultural, and communicative issues have an especial salience. Purely theoretical as well as empirically based studies are included. General Editors Stewart Clegg School of Management University of Technology Sydney Quay Street, Haymarket P.O.Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia
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Volume 10 The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of Organization Studies Edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith
The Civilized Organization Norbert Elias and the future of Organization Studies Edited by
Ad van Iterson Maastricht University
Willem Mastenbroek Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Tim Newton University of Exeter
Dennis Smith Loughborough University
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Civilized Organization : Norbert Elias and the future of Organization Studies / edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith. p. cm. (Advances in Organization Studies, issn 1566–1075 ; v. 10) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Organizational behavior. 2. Organizational sociology. 3. Elias, Norbert. I. Iterson, Ad van, 1952- II. Series. HD58.7 C593 2002 302.3´5--dc21 isbn 90 272 3309 8 (Eur.) / 1 58811 278 0 (US) (Pb; alk. paper) isbn 90 272 3308 X (Eur.) / 1 58811 277 2 (US) (Hb; alk. paper)
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