EDITOR’S PREFACE
Steven Peter Vallas

1. MANAGERIAL RESISTANCE TO HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKPLACE PRACTICES
Ian M Taplin

2. ORGANIZATIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND THE STRUCTURATION OF WORK
Michael Lounsbury and William N. Kaghan

3. IT’S NOT JUST WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S WHO YOU KNOW:  TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, RAINMAKING, AND GENDER AMONG FINANCE EXECUTIVES
Mary Blair-Loy

4. DO HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS PAY OFF?
Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg,

5. CAREERS AND CONTRADICTIONS: FACULTY RESPONSES TO THE COMMERCIALIZATION  OF THE LIFE SCIENCES
Jason Owen-Smith and  Walter W. Powell

6. CAN SELF-MANAGING TEAMS BE TRULY CROSS-FUNCTIONAL?:
GENDER BARRIERS TO A “NEW” DIVISION OF LABOR
Marjukka Ollilainen and Joyce Rothschild

7. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF OVERTIME.
Paul V. Martorana and Paul Hirsch

8. WHAT’S LEFT OF WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY? WORKPLACE INNOVATION AND WORKERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD THE FIRM
Martin Kuhlmann and Michael Schumann

9. WORKERS RULE: RELATIONS IN PRODUCTION AT A COOPERATIVE WORKPLACE
Sarah Hernandez

10. TECHNOCRATIC TEAMWORK: MITIGATING POLARIZATION AND CULTURAL MARGINALIZATION IN AN  ENGINEERING FIRM
Gerhard Daday and Beverly Burris
 
11. DECIDING TO WORK LESS IN A HIGH-LEVEL PROFESSION:
NEGOTIATING STRATEGIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF REDUCED-HOURS CAREERS IN MEDICINE
Lena Lundgren, Faith Ferguson, and Jennifer Fleischer-Cooperman

12. LEAN OR JUST MEAN? THE FLEXIBILISATION OF LABOUR IN
THE AUSTRALIAN HOTEL INDUSTRY
Nils Timo