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  • 1.  book announcement

    Posted 09-03-2013 13:09
    Book Release of Interest: Zombie Seed and the Butterfly Blues: A Case of Social Justice (Sense Publishers) by Robin P. Clair
     
    A research-based suspense novel about corporate greed and the ways that organizations operate which can be used in college classrooms as a spring board for reflection and conversation or read for pleasure.
     
    In Zombie Seed and the Butterfly Blues: A Case of Social Justice students from a liberal arts class help Professor Delta Quinn and reporter, Caleb Barthes, uncover the political and corporate story behind the scientific development and implementation of the zombie seed. Zombie Seed and the Butterfly Blues: A Case of Social Justice is meant to engage the college student, to have students address and discuss issues of relevance to society at large.  The novel is intended to provide a teaching tool to professors who are looking for new ways to awaken students.
     
    The author is happy to discuss how you can use the book in your courses. Contact her at rpclair@purdue.edu.   
     
    "Zombie Seed and the Butterfly Blues is not only a wonderful read, it's compelling and thought-provoking. I loved it!" -Donald Bain, Author of the "Murder, She Wrote" novels
     
    "A gripping story about corporate conspiracy and exploitation, relational violence, and the value of social research." -Professor Tony E. Adams
     
    For more info, including a free preview of the first couple chapters visit:
     
     
    Use promo code 192837 at check-out to receive 25% off at sensepublishers.com
     
    Desk copies may be obtained through course-exam@sensepublishers.com. Please mention the name of the course for which you consider to obtain the text and the estimated number of students as well as your street address and phone number.
     
    Patricia Leavy, PhD.
    Author, Series Editor and Speaker
    Fiction as Research Practice author


  • 2.  Book Announcement

    Posted 06-12-2014 07:17
    New Volume on "Religion and Organization Theory" edited by Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips and Michael Lounsbury

     

    The motivation for this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations lies in the simple observation that while religion plays an obvious and prominent role in virtually every society and economy worldwide, it has received almost no attention in organizational theory. This is true both in terms of the study of religion in secular organizations and in terms of the study of religious organizations themselves. A greater focus on religion in organizational analysis is therefore important for three reasons. First, the study of religious organizations may generate significant novel insights into a range of topics and issues such as identity, culture and motivation with clear relevance for organizations of all kinds. Second, organizational members do not set aside their religious beliefs and practices when they become organizational members and, in fact, there is increasing evidence of the importance of formal religious practices in some corporate settings. Third, part of the intellectual project of organizations research involves building knowledge about social and behavioral processes in all kinds of organization; a singular focus on commercial organizations is incompatible with such an endeavour.


    This volume contains 11 papers from leading organizational scholars that push forward our understanding of religion and organization in important ways. The papers are organized around four themes: religion and organization at the micro-level; religious organizational forms and practices; religion and institutional theory; religion and social movements. Combined, the constituent papers constitute an important step towards a fuller engagement with religion in organization theory.

     

    Part 1: Introduction

    Taking Religion Seriously in the Study of Organizations

    Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury

     

    God on Management: The World's Largest Religions, the 'Theological Turn', and Organization and Management Theory and Practice

    Bruno Dyck

     

    Part 2: Studying Religion and Organization at the Micro-level

    Religion in Organizations: Cognition and Behavior

    Gary R Weaver and Jason M Stansbury

     

    Myths to Work by: Redemptive Self-narratives and Generative Agency for Organizational Change

    WE Douglas Creed, Rich DeJordy and Jaco Lok

     

    Part 3: Religious Organizational Forms and Practices

    Organizational Form, Structure and Religious Organizations

    CR Hinings and Mia Raynard

     

    Pastor Practices in the Era of Megachurches: New Organizational Practices and Forms for a Changing Institutional Environment

    Marvin Washington, Harry J Van Buren III and Karen Patterson

     

    Part 4: Religion and Institutional Theory

    Divine Institution: Max Weber's Value Spheres and Institutional Theory

    Roger Friedland

     

    Productive Resistance: A Study of Change, Emotions and Identity in the Context of the Apostolic Visitation of US Women's Religious, 2008-2012

    Simona Giorgi, Margaret E. Guilder and Jean M Bartunek

     

    Serving Two Masters: Transformative Resolutions to Institutional Contradictions

    Rich DeJordy, Brad Almond, Richard Nielsen and WE Douglas Creed

     

    The Institutional Complexity of Religious Mutual Funds: Appreciating the Uniqueness of Societal Logics

    Jared L Peifer

     

    Part 5: Religion and Social Movements

    The Devil's Advocate and the Church: Building Adaptable Organizations

    Paolo Parigi

     

    "Why are We Talking about Light Bulbs in the Church?" Political and Market Mobilization for Energy Efficiency in Two Interfaith Social Change Organizations

    Dina Biscotti and Nicole Woolsey Biggart