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"Lives in the balance": A comment on Hinings and Greenwood's "Disconnects and Consequences...

By Clegg, Stewart R.
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
Date: Sunday, September 1 2002

Hinings and Greenwood's Proposition

In "Disconnects and Consequences in Organization Theory?" Hinings and Greenwood ask what is the point of organization theory today? They establish, early on in their essay, that when it was conceived as the sociology of organizations, the point was clear. It was to address the question, "what are the consequences of the existence of organizations?" The question has two elements: "First, how organizations affect the pattern of privilege and disadvantage in society; second, how privilege and disadvantage are distributed within organiza

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