Essal: How Far is a Sociology of Organizations Still Needed?
Organization Studies · 1998 · Volume 19 · Issue 2
DOI: 10.1177/017084069801900207
Abstract
Any scientific discipline experiences a life cycle. As a specific discipline, the sociology of organizations may well have reached a stage of maturity and entered a declining return of the knowledge process. This is clearly the case with what might be called its standard platform or agenda of research. A major change in recent years has been the emergence of an extended platform or domain. This raises the question: Does this emergence renew the core identity of the discipline or does it dilute the sociology of organizations as a specific discipline? This essai discusses the ambiguity of such a redefinition of the domain ground. It also calls for a more solid and interactive dialogue between general sociology and sociology dealing with organizations.
Keywords
sociology of organizations, sociology of knowledge, science life cycles, general theory
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