The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives

The subtitle of this handbook of organization theory is important: “Meta‐theoretical perspectives” This phrase signals that the book is not a collection of various types of organization theory (OT), or of various topics in organizational life and theories about them – but rather a series of reflections by scholars on “the status of OT as a social science discipline”. [...]I will give a brief overview of the handbook's aims and coverage, and then go on to focus on the aspects that are likely to be of most interest from an Human Resource Management (HRM) standpoint. [...]OT is a variety of styles, related to what she ironically calls organisational theory's “much lamented plurality” (p. 238).