For Formal Organization: The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory

This book seeks to contribute to the goal of reviving Organization Theory as a practical science of organizing and rehabilitating its core object - formal organization - through a re-examination and re-assessment of the outlook, comportment and attitude animating its classical antecedents.

Paul du Gay, Professor at Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and Academic Director of the CBS Public Private Platform, ,Signe Vikkelso, Professor with special responsibilities at Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and Head of Department,

Paul du Gay has published extensively in sociology, cultural studies, public management and organization studies. He is the author inter alia of Consumption and Identity at Work and In Praise of Bureaucracy. His recent publications include New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and dynamics (ed. with G. Morgan, OUP) and The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (with P. Adler, G. Morgan, and M. Reed eds., OUP). At CBS he is Academic Director of the School's Public Private Platform and leads the Velux Foundation project 'Office as a Vocation'.

Signe Vikkelso's research focuses on organizational analysis and the organizing effects of tools and techniques in work practices and human relations. Drawing upon cases from healthcare, psychoanalysis, and industrial production she has published in sociology of science and technology, psychology, CSCW and organization studies. Her recent publications include a comprehensive Handbook in Classic and Modern Organization Theory (ed. with P. Kjaer, Hans Reitzels Forlag). At CBS she is Heading the Department of Organization, and member of the Research, Innovation and Organization Cluster. She is currently starting up a research project of the effects of the partnership idea in research and innovation programs (with J. Sommerlund).