Unwilling theory: A response to Hughes’ ‘Looking Elsewhere’
回应休斯关于贝克尔作为不情愿组织理论家的论文，探讨贝克尔的不情愿态度能带给组织理论学者什么启示。
Jason Hughes’ paper ‘Looking Elsewhere: Howard S. Becker as Unwilling Organization Theorist’ offers a long overdue survey of Becker’s ideas. I hope it will spark renewed interest in the work of Becker among organization theorists.The essay certainly saves us all a lot of time as it ties together Becker’s terminology, theory and methods and contextualizes his work within recent trends in sociology and organization studies. However, while Hughes focuses on the potential of Becker’s ideas as a theory of organizations, in this commentary, I would like to focus on the other part of Becker—the ‘unwilling organization theorist’. What, I want to ask, can we learn from Becker’sunwillingness?