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Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis establishes the legitimacy of heterodoxy in organizational research. Its careful examination of the ontological and epistemological foundations of disparate research traditions promises to initiate a new type of integrative theory dialogue.

W. Edwards Deming' philosophy of total quality management (TQM) constitutes more than an approach to management. It is also a full-fledged theory of organization and a theory of society and politics that holds important implications for relations between nation-states in the emerging "new world order." When examined in this light, it appears that TQM is not collectivist or Marxist in the way that it is sometimes understood, but that it does stand in tension with a number of aspects of the traditional liberal American political and social tradition. At the same time, however, it is quite consistent with the revolutionary, antifederalist subtheme that has persisted throughout U.S. history.

This paper describes the key concepts of a transformational theory of organizations and discusses its validity as a practical conceptual framework. The authors argue that transformational theory, based largely on the theories of the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, provides a way of conceptualizing organizational process by clarifying and grounding a number of critical innovations of organizational practice. The authors characterize transformational theory's basic assumptions—the ontological commitment, the epistemological commitment, praxis, the theory of social relationships-and highlight the distinctive nature of these assumptions compared to more traditional organization theories.

Disputes between government bodies are usually settled through either political bargaining or litigation, but a third method has been successfully utilized in Virginia. Since 1980, a number of municipal annexation disputes have been settled using formal mediation as a tool. The authors draw on their experiences in mediation and local government to