The contributors to this highly innovative and authoritative research companion, leading experts in their field, apply relational analyses to different areas of organization studies and provide a comprehensive review of the relational perspectives. The book features empirical, theoretical, philosophical and methodological contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on relationality in and around organizations. They explore areas such as:






relational self and dynamic organizing


social relational contexts and self-organizing inequality


learning and knowledge creation


stress and burnout


identities in organizations


trust and commitment in the market


venturing as a relational process


coordinating work through relationships of shared knowledge, shared goals and mutual respect


relational approaches and social constructionism


relational methods in organization studies


relational cohesion model of organizational commitment


interorganizational cooperation between non-profit organizations.


Filling a gap in the organizational studies literature, the truly relational approach to the study of organizational behaviours and processes in this highly original research companion will be invaluable to academics, students and researchers with an interest in organizational studies.