Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management

A critical, intellectually provocative text that provides a nuanced and practical account of rationality in organizational contexts, making it clear that women have and continue to write ground breaking work on the subject.

Robert McMurray is Professor of Work and Organization at The York Management School, UK. Research interests include the organization of health care, professions, emotion labour, dirty work and visual methods. Other collaborative book projects include The Dark Side of Emotional Labour (2015) The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care (2018) and Urban Portraits (2017). Alison Pullen is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Macquarie University, Australia, and Editor in Chief of Gender, Work and Organization. Alison's research has been concerned with analysing and intervening in the politics of work as it concerns gender discrimination, identity politics and organizational injustice.

Series note, Notes on contributors, 1. Introduction: beyond rationality, Robert McMurray & Alison Pullen, 2. Unbounded Relationality: Mary Parker Follett's Integrative Theory, Method, and Life, Ellen O'Connor, 3. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jenna Ward, 4. Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Scott Lawley & Valerie Caven, 5. The inspirations of Heather Höpfl: Taking heart from radical humanism, Achilleas Karayiannis & Monika Kostera, 6. Discursive Writing, Representations of the Past and Gender: Writing Frances Perkins out of Management and Organizational Studies, Kristin S Williams & Albert J Mills, Index