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The Sociology of Formal Organization by Philip Selznick

The Sociology of Formal Organization by Philip Selznick

The Tennessee Valley Authority tried working through local institutions instead of imposing federal programs from Washington. The agency had therefore to coopt the powerful local interests already in the Valley: land-grant colleges, extension services, the Farm Bureau. It absorbed such changes into its policy-making structure.
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Functional Stupidity by Alvesson & Cizinsky

Functional Stupidity by Alvesson & Cizinsky

Anti-Stupidity is not a conventional management book. What it offers instead is a morally serious critique of how organisations systematically undermine their own purposes. It acknowledges the mixed blessings of bureaucracy & professionalism.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions By Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions By Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revealed that scientists don't abandon theories when anomalies appear. They defend them, patch them, and only let go when a better alternative is ready. The result of this work? A model of scientific change that explains not just the history of physics, but how knowledge evolves in every field.
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The Critique of the Critical Management Studies

The Critique of the Critical Management Studies

A field in need of self-reflection. The Critical Management Studies (CMS) has now been criticized in two recent articles; One by André Spicer and Mats Alvesson (2024), and the other by Alvesson and Spicer (2025), along with the Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (2011).
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