Books by John Hassard

Based on research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of state enterprise reform in China. It considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978.

Presents a series of epistemological, conceptual and methodological explorations appropriate to the development of critical organizational analysis. This book offers insight into established debates surrounding, for example, postmodernism and actor-network theory.

This book traces the history of systems theory in organisation studies from its foundations to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis offers general support for recent claims that organisation theory is in 'crisis', but takes issue with the common criticism that paradigms are incommensurable.