The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies

Chapter 1: Introduction - Ann Langley & Haridimos Tsoukas PART I: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY Chapter 2: Whitehead's Process Relational Philosophy - C. Robert Mesle and Mark R. Dibben Chapter 3: Henri Bergson: Toward a Philosophy of Becoming - Wahida Khandker Chapter 4: Gilles Deleuze and Process Philosophy - Keith Robinson Chapter 5: James, Dewey, and Mead: On What Must Come before All Our Inquiries - John Shotter PART II: PROCESS THEORY Chapter 6: Contradictions, Dialectics and Paradoxes - Moshe Farjoun Chapter 7: The Practice Approach: For a Praxeology of Organisational and Management Studies - Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro Chapter 8: Complexity Theory and Process Organization Studies - Philip Anderson and Alan D. Meyer Chapter 9: Symbolic Interactionism - Dionysios D. Dionysiou Chapter 10: Actor-Network Theory - Barbara Czarniawska Chapter 11: Ethnomethodology - Andrea Whittle and William Housley Chapter 12: Discourse Theory - Loizos Heracleous Chapter 13: Evolutionary Theory - Geoffrey M. Hodgson PART III: PROCESS METHODOLOGY Chapter 14: Ethnography and Organizational Processes - Merlijn van Hulst, Sierk Ybema and Dvora Yanow Chapter 15: Taking a Strong Process Approach to Analyzing Qualitative Process Data - Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Le and Paul Spee Chapter 16: Sequential Analysis of Processes - Marshall Scott Poole, Natalie Lambert, Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio and Joseph McDonald Chapter 17: Narratives and Processuality - Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara Chapter 18: Composing a Musical Score for Academic-Practitioner Collaborative Research - Stuart Albert and Jean M. Bartunek Chapter 19: History in Process Organization Studies: What, Why and How - Matthias Kipping and Juha-Antti Lamberg PART IV: PROCESS APPLICATIONS Chapter 20: A Process Perspective on Organizational Routines - Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Claus Rerup Chapter 21: Sensemaking, Simplexity, and Mindfulness - Timothy Vogus and Ian Colville Chapter 22: A Temporal Understanding of the Connections Between Organizational Culture and Identity - Tor Hernes and Majken Schultz Chapter 23: Institutions as Process - Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson Phillips Chapter 24: Strategy as Practice, Process and Institution: Converging on Activity - Richard Whittington Chapter 25: Time, temporality and Process Studies - Juliane Reinecke and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari Chapter 26: Sustainability as Process - Gail Whiteman and Steve Kennedy Chapter 27: Entrepreneurship as process - Todd H. Chiles, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias and Qian Li Chapter 28: From the Process of Innovation to Innovation as Process - Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Arun Kumaraswamy and Philipp Tuertscher Chapter 29: Power and Process: The Production of 'Knowing' Subjects and 'Known' Objects - Cynthia Hardy and Robyn Thomas Chapter 30: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Processes: A Critical Review - Krista Pettit, Mary Crossan and Dusya Vera Chapter 31: Leadership Process - Gail T. Fairhurst Chapter 32: Organizational Communication as Process - Francois Cooren, Gerald Bartels and Thomas Martine Chapter 33: Materiality as an Organizing Process: Toward a Process Metaphysics for Material Artifacts - Paul M. Leonardi Chapter 34: Organizational Design as Process - Roger L.M. Dunbar & Beth A. Bechky Chapter 35: Improvisation Processes in Organizations - Miguel Pina e Cunha, Anne S. Miner and Elena Antonacopoulou Chapter 36: Cycles of Divergence and Convergence: Underlying Processes of Organization Change and Innovation - Kevin Dooley and Andrew Van de Ven PART V: PROCESS PERSPECTIVES Chapter 37: Process, Practices and Organizational Competitiveness: Understanding Dynamic Capabilities through A Process-Philosophical Worldview - Robert Chia Chapter 38: Process as the Becoming of Temporal Trajectory - Tor Hernes Chapter 39: Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research: Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction - Joep Cornelissen, Dennis Schoeneborn, and Consuelo Vasquez Chapter 40: Embedding Process: Situating Process in Work Relations - Hugh Willmott Chapter 41: Making Process Visible: Alternatives to Boxes and Arrows - Martha S. Feldman Chapter 42: Truth and Process Studies - Robin Holt

Langley and Tsoukas have gathered together a roster of thoughtful scholars who reflect on the theories, methods and applications of process analysis. For experienced scholars, it is a useful birds-eye view for reflecting on the field as a whole and on the 'process turn' in organizational studies. For new scholars, this volume provides a series of hand holds for becoming effective process researchers. -- Sarah Kaplan The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies is a remarkable collection of scholarship - a way station where scholars with an interest in process questions can pause to take stock of the field, regroup, and continue to unpack how anything organizational arises, flourishes, and expires over time. While each of the five sections in the book forms a stepping stone for navigating one aspect of contemporary process organizing, the sections collectively constitute a comprehensive roadmap for guiding the field for years to come. Editors Ann Langley and Hari Tsoukas deserve praise for imagining the volume, solidifying the process agenda, and making a major contribution to the field of process organization studies. -- Claus Rerup Chapter 41 in this compelling Handbook is titled, "Making process visible: alternatives to boxes and arrows." That title describes the essence of all 42 of these chapters, written by a remarkable assemblage of seasoned process scholars. Fluid times demand fluid organizing and these authoritative discussions provide deep insights into ways that flows of flux and hunches are patterned. Langley and Tsoukas have created an invaluable guide that helps everyone transform the ineffable into vivid experience. -- Karl Weick This wonderful collection of essays unpacks the field of Process Organization Studies, guiding the reader through its roots in process philosophy and relationship to core theoretical and methodological approaches, to explore the meaning of a process perspective on key topics in contemporary organizational theory. With thoughtful, richly illustrated, and often provocative contributions from an extremely distinguished, international set of process scholars, the Sage Handbook of Process Organization Studies offers both a comprehensive overview for the novice researcher, and a deep dive into this increasingly influential field for those already familiar with its core ideas. -- Sally Maitlis Over the last four decades, a 'process turn' has gradually taken place within organization studies and the social sciences more broadly. This handbook provides an invaluable source for students and academics who want to understand what a process perspective is, and what it has to offer organization studies. Langley and Tsoukas have skillfully compiled an impressive set of chapters by leading process scholars, covering the entire spectrum of process organization studies: from process philosophy, process theory, process methodology to process applications. A rare intellectual treat indeed! -- Joergen Sandberg Grounded in diverse ontologies, this Handbook is the magnum opus of process work in organizational studies. Featuring an all-star cast of scholars, this volume covers the vast landscape of process issues from philosophical roots to methodological challenges to applications in such arenas as strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainability, among others. It defines the breadth and depth of this work, distills knowledge from process studies in the field, and provides cutting-edge thinking about contemporary issues. It is a must-read volume for process researchers and an essential reference work for all organizational scholarship. -- Linda Putnam