Organization Studies:The Sixth Organization Studies Summer Workshop “Bringing Public Organization and Organizing Back In” 25—28 May 2011, Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, Paris, France
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Organization Studies The Sixth Organization Studies Summer Workshop “Bringing Public Organization and Organizing Back In” 25—28 May 2011, Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, Paris, France SAGE Publications, Inc. 201010.1177/0170840610379717 © The Author(s), 2010. The Author(s) DavidArellano GAULT, CIDE, Mexico, david.arellano@cide.edu DavidDemortain London School of Economics and Political Science, Great Britain, ddemortain@gmail.com ChristianRouillard University of Ottawa, Canada, christian.rouillard@uottawa.ca Jean-ClaudeThoenig Dauphine Recherches en Management, Paris, France, jeanclaude.thoenig@free.fr SophiaTzagaraki Organization Studies managing editor, osofficer@gmail.com BarryBozeman University of Georgia, USA JohanOlsen n ARENA Center for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway YvesSchemeil Institut Universitaire de France and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France As a field of research, organization studies is interdisciplinary, even ecletic, favoring multiple objects, methods, and levels of analysis. Yet, over time, it appears that some of the disciplines involved in this field have grown increasingly unaware of one another. Such is the case for studies and research dealing with public policymaking, public adminis- tration, and political regimes. While having contributed in a decisive manner to the emergence of knowledge about social organizations (authors like Weber, Selznick, Blau, Lipset, March, Crozier, Mayntz and others), their influence seems to have declined somehow in the last twenty years. Such is also