Essal: How Far is a Sociology of Organizations Still Needed?
探讨组织社会学是否已进入成熟期并面临知识回报递减，分析其研究领域扩展带来的身份模糊问题，呼吁加强一般社会学与组织社会学的对话。
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.