The Agency of Organizing: Perspectives and Case Studies [Paperback]

Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association

The Agency of Organizing explains why the notion of agency is central to understanding what organizations are, how they come into existence, continue to exist, or fade away, and how they function. Written by leading organizational communication scholars, the chapters in this edited volume present seven different theoretical perspectives on agency in the dynamics of organizing. Authors discuss how they conceptualize agency from their own perspective and how they propose to investigate agency empirically in processes of organizing by using specific methods. Through insightful case studies, they demonstrate the value of these perspectives for organizational research and practice.

 

List of Illustrations

Boris H. J. M. Brummans

2. The Distribution of Decision Rights at ICANN: A Luhmannian Perspective on Agency

Steffen Blaschke

3. Being Able to Act Otherwise: The Role of Agency in the Four Flows at 2-1-1 and Beyond