Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon (eds): the Northern Lights--Organization Theory in...

2003, Copenhagen: Liber.Abstract.Copenhagen Business School Press, 471 pages

Within this edited collection of diverse papers on the contribution of a 'distinctly Scandinavian way of understanding, reasoning and talking' (Erhard Friedberg, on rear sleeve note), Czarniawska and Sevon provide an invaluable contribution to the growing richness and diversity of organization theory. As they state at the outset of their introduction (p. 9), '[t]here are two theoretical movements that run counter to each other in organization research', one in search of universal truths while