First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent chapters investigate key issues in the study of organizations, including structure and agency, the politics of organization theory, and the meanings of post-positivist organizational analysis. Contemporaneous debates on postmodernism, the emotions, gender and structuration are discussed in the context of the development of organizational theory in the preceding twenty-five years - providing insights into the continuities within organizational theory and provoking thought about future directions.
