Call for Entries: Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology

Call for Entries

Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology

Editors:

• Mary Godwyn, Professor of Sociology, Babson College, MA, USA
• Ethné Swartz, Professor of Management, Feliciano School of Business, Montclair State University, NJ, USA
• Michael Grothe-Hammer, Associate Professor of Sociology (Organization & Technology), Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
• Samuel O. Idowu, London Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, UK

Project Description:

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology is a single-volume Encyclopedia in a new and exciting series of Encyclopedias in Sociology offered by Edward Elgar Publishing.

This volume offers relatively concise encyclopedic coverage of the discreet subfield of organizational sociology. We aim to capture a comprehensive set of diverse perspectives on organizational sociology, with easy-access entries and references to assist scholars and researchers as they search for seminal content in this important field.

The Editors wish to create a volume that provides readers with key foundational concepts in the field of sociology and organization studies, while also being inclusive of a range of theoretical perspectives that include but is not limited to liberal, postmodernist, historical materialist, or post-colonialist feminist accounts. We are also open to discussion that focusses on topics that meld transdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., inertia when implementing change), or social implications of technological change (e.g., deskilling, upskilling, digital skills and agile organizations). We are particularly interested in contributions that reflect the Global South and move us beyond purely Western perspectives, authors, and topics. Additionally, we encourage entries that update the major debates about the evolution of the discipline.

Entries:

The single-volume Encyclopedia will consist of around 200,000 words that reflect selected entries from authors who respond to this call, or specially commissioned entries. Authors may choose to contribute one or more entries. The editors seek entries that provide a concise summary of the most relevant accumulated knowledge on a subject or concept. We expect that the length of entries will vary but, as a guide, more complex entries should be 2,000-3,000 words, while less complex entries (e.g., the definition of a key concept) as little as 1,000 words.

To ensure editorial integrity and foster diverse perspectives, the Editors request that authors peer-review two entries from other contributors for every entry they submit. Authors will be entitled to post the pre-print version of their entry on their own website and institutional repository after a six-month embargo period. For those interested, there will also be an option to publish a limited number of entries Open Access for a fee.

Organization of entries will be alphabetical and may include a very limited number of entries on founding authors in the field and their contributions, theories, and concepts upon which organizational sociology is defined. The Encyclopedia will be organized as follows: Biographies and contributions of approximately 10 founders of the field; Main Conceptual entries, and Organization entries. We expect Main entries to be between 2,000 – 3,000 words, Biographical and Organization entries to between 1,000 and 1,500 words. We append an initial list that interested contributors can consult. We also encourage contributors to propose their own entries not on our list for consideration. Interested contributors can send an initial 250-word outline that contains a precis of the content they wish to submit, and why it is important to include in the Encyclopedia. Please send these initial entries and further enquiries to:

Mary Godwyn, EiC Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology

Email: ed.encyclopedia.soc.org@gmail.com

Deadlines

2023

January – June: Solicitation of authors to write and peer-review entries for the Encyclopedia.

Commitment from authors – The EiC will distribute Contributors Agreements to each author.

September 15: Deadline for submission of written entries from authors.

November 15: Distribution of entries to peer-reviewers.

2024

January 15: the Deadline for peer- reviews of entries to be submitted to Co-editors.

March 15: the Deadline for Co-editors to complete their review of peer-reviewed submissions.

April 15: Deadline for Co-editors to provide feedback on entries.

June 15: Deadline for rewrites and resubmissions

August 15: Deadline for Co-editors to complete final revisions and submit manuscript to publisher.

Final Entries and Due Date:

All final entries are due on September 15, 2023, but can be sent at any time before that. Please follow the structure below:

• Title
• Introduction and brief overview of the topic, figure/author/researcher, or concept.
• Discussion and application
• Critical summary and conclusion
• Name of Author (right indent)
• References and selected further readings.

The referencing system for in-text citations is (Author, Year). To refer to a specific page it is (Author, Year: p. 166). The following format is to be used for the list of references at the end of the entry:

• Boltanski, L. and E. Chiapello (2005), The New Spirit of Capitalism. London: Verso.
• Hyman, R. (2006), Marxist thought and the analysis of work, in M. Korczynski, R. Hodson and P. Edwards (eds), Social Theory at Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pettinger, L. (2004), Brand culture and branded workers: service work and aesthetic labor in fashion retail, Consumption, Markets & Culture, 7(2), pp.165-184.
• Authors can also suggest other types of media such as websites, podcasts or films under references and selected further readings.

Proposed List of Entries for Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology

1. Accountability
2. Adam Smith
3. Adhocracy
4. Administrative Sociology
5. Affirmative action
6. Age
7. Agile organization
8. Agency theory
9. Alexis de Tocqueville
10. Algorithmic culture
11. Alternative organizations
12. Animals
13. Art gallery
14. Authority (types)
15. Bias (types such as gender, race, 2^nd generation)
16. B-Corporations
17. Bottom-up management
18. Boundary spanning
19. Bureaucracy (including types)
20. Bureaucratic organizational form including bureaucratic control
21. Business continuity
22. Business organizations
23. C. Wright Mills
24. Capitalism (types – monopoly vs stakeholder)
25. Charles Perrow
26. Chester Barnard
27. Chicago School
28. Circular economy
29. Clandestine Organization
30. Class conflict
31. Cliques
32. Coercive organizations
33. Cognitive dissonance
34. Collective action
35. Contagion
36. Conversion of technologies
37. Communicative Constitution of Organization
38. Communism
39. Compensation
40. Compliance
41. Contingency Theory
42. Crisis management
43. Critical Race Theory
44. Deviance
45. Democracy
46. Diffusion of innovations
47. Digital affordances
48. Digital networks
49. Digital nomads
50. Digital punishment
51. Digital Social Sciences
52. Digital systems and architecture
53. Disruptive change
54. Disruptive innovation
55. Ecosystems
56. Emotions in Organizations
57. Extreme work
58. Formal Organization
59. Fragmentation (network structures)
60. Gendering
61. Gender equity
62. Gig work
63. Groups
64. High-Reliability Organization
65. Inertia
66. Industrial crises
67. Informal Organizations (Grassroot Organizations)
68. Informality (of structures and processes)
69. Innovation economy
70. Institutional theory and neo-Institutionalism
71. Interactional and relational theories of organization
72. International Schools
73. Inter-organizational networks
74. Intersectionality
75. Labor process
76. Legitimacy
77. Managerialism
78. Mary Parker Follett
79. Marxism
80. Meta-Organization
81. Michel Crozier
82. Mission statements
83. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)
84. Networks (types such as embedded in organizations, social, digital)
85. Network effects
86. Niklas Luhmann
87. Normal accidents
88. Organizational crises
89. Organizations and inequality
90. Organization and Macro-level differentiation of society
91. Organization and societal differentiation
92. Organization as closed system
93. Organization as field – please clarify
94. Organization as network
95. Organization as open system
96. Organization as process
97. Organization as social order
98. Organization as social system
99. Organization as structure
100. Organization as system
101. Organization Studies
102. Organization Theory
103. Organizational adaptation
104. Organizational behavior
105. Organizational chart
106. Organizational culture
107. Organizational diversity
108. Organizational Ecology
109. Organizational fields
110. Organizational governance
111. Organizational Institutionalism
112. Organizational pathology
113. Organizational key concepts
114. Organizational Sociology and other sociologies
115. Organizational Theories and paradigms
116. Organizational types and forms
117. Organizationality
118. Organizational resilience
119. Partial Organization
120. Partnerships
121. Party (event)
122. Party (political)
123. Peter Drucker
124. Pierre Bourdieu
125. Platforms
126. Police
127. Political Economy
128. Political Sociology
129. Power
130. Practice theory
131. Prison
132. Profit maximization
133. Public Administration
134. Race
135. Radical democracy
136. Rational myth
137. Rational systems theories
138. Rationality (types)
139. Reciprocity
140. Reforms
141. Relational organizational form
142. Religious Organizations
143. Resistance (collective and individual)
144. Resource dependency theory
145. Restaurants
146. Retaliation
147. Rituals
148. Robert Merton
149. Schools
150. Sensemaking
151. Shops
152. Social Movement Studies
153. Social order vs. social organization
154. Social stratification
155. Social Systems Theory
156. Socialism
157. Sociology of Sports
158. Sociology of Work
159. Solidarity
160. Stakeholders
161. Strategic Alliance
162. Strong vs Weak ties
163. Structural theories
164. Structural holes
165. Structuration
166. Sustainability
167. Sustainable corporations
168. Systems (Rational, Natural, Open)
169. Systems theory
170. Tacit skills
171. Talcott Parsons
172. Teams
173. Technology
174. Temporal working regimes
175. Temporary Organization & Project Organization
176. Tokenism
177. Top-down management
178. Total organization
179. Town meeting model
180. Transaction cost economics
181. Transactional model
182. Translation
183. Trust
184. Uniformed work
185. Union organizations
186. University
187. Voluntary organizations
188. Weber (Max)
189. Weberian Ideal Types
190. Whistle blowing
191. White collar work
192. White collar crime
193. Wicked Problems
194. Work-life balance