Introduction: Norbert Elias and the civilized organization

Tim Newton

Dennis Smith

Part I Organizing Discourse

The development of meeting behaviour in modern organizations and the rise of an upper class of professional chairpersons

Wilbert van Vree

Blame and praise gossip in organizations: Established, outsiders and the civilising process

Joseph Soeters

Ad van Iterson

The humiliating organization: The functions and dysfunctions of degradation

Dennis Smith

Part II Negotiating Boundaries

About individual autonomy and the relational self: The performance of privacy in contemporary organizations

Marja Gastelaars

Figurational sociology, monopolization and corporate governance

Ruud Stokvis

Boundary behaviour and organizational dynamics

Tor Hernes

Part III Crossing Cultures

From the socio-historical macro model to organizational behaviour: A comparative study of coordination in organizations in France and Germany

Tatjana Globokar

The evolution of management theories in China: An Eliasian analysis

Stephen Chen

Cultivating Indian management: Institutions, subjectivity, and the nature of knowledge

Nidhi Srinivas

Part IV Theorizing Practice

Norbert Elias as organizational sociologist

Willem Mastenbroek

Elias, organizations and ecology

Tim Newton

Management and organization: Does Elias give us something to hold on to?

Willem Mastenbroek

Notes

References

Index