Against the Current: Organizational Sociology and Socialism
批判了组织分析中的批判流派,指出其从本质主义出发(如劳动分工和官僚制)限制了理论对资本主义社会的批判,难以与基于民主与效率的社会经济重组政治项目结合,最终陷入功能主义宿命论。
The critical current in organization analysis has not only called into question the conservative assumptions of more orthodox organization theory, but also the purely cosmetic nature of what often passes for worklife reform. However, it has chosen to mount these attacks from essentialist starting points - the 'division of labour' and 'bureaucracy' - which circumscribe its theoretical critique of organizations in capitalist society. Consequently, it is difficult to couple critical organization theory to a political project which generates a confrontation with capitalism based on criteria of socio-economic re-organization, in which mutually dependent criteria of democracy and efficiency are operative. By default, it ends up endorsing functionalist fatalism.