CONTENTS -- FIGURE -- LIST OF BOXES -- 1 Foucault and rationality -- Why rationality? -- Whose reason? -- Why Foucault? -- Foucault . . . how? -- The importance of analysing practice -- The argument: A pictorial representation -- PART I: DISEMBEDDED RATIONALITY -- Introduction -- 2 Economic rationality -- Purposeful individuals -- The anthropomorphization of organizations -- Bounded rationality -- Decision-making -- The new rationality -- Conclusions -- 3 Bureaucratic rationality -- Bureaucracy -- Bureaucracy and rationality -- The response to uncertainty: Domination through knowledge -- Conclusions -- 4 Technocratic rationality -- Technology and organization -- Technology as technique -- Management as science -- Technocratic administration? -- Which science? -- Management as practice -- Conclusions -- PART II: EMBEDDED RATIONALITY -- Introduction -- 5 Institutional rationality -- The rationalization of value spheres -- The institution of reason -- Institutional theory and rationalized myths -- Institutional logics -- Rationality institutionalized? -- Institutional 'rationality'? -- Conclusions -- 6 Contextual rationality -- Hidden from reason: A Romantic legacy -- Rationality versus community -- Culture as competence: Rendering rational -- Rationality as thick description? A narrative rationality -- Conclusion: Rational communities? -- 7 Situational rationality -- A presumption of logic -- The rationality of situated action -- Situated knowledge -- Situated studies -- Conclusions -- PART III: THE 'OTHER' OF REASON -- Introduction -- 8 Embodied rationality -- The body -- Embodied thinking and knowledge -- The emotions -- Emotions in organizations -- Rational emotions? -- The 'irrational' unconscious -- Conclusions -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Collective rationality -- Collective action -- Collective action and the 'collective good'.

Collective reasoning -- Collective reasoning and the 'collective good' -- The collective within organization studies -- Collective reasoning and practice -- Conclusions -- 10 Practical reason -- Practical concerns -- Practical rationalities -- Practical reason -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- Z -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.