Van Krieken, RobertRobertVan Krieken2019-06-062019-06-062018 the A2019-05Cambio. Rivista sulle Transformazioni Sociali2239-1118http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10748This paper outlines the significance of Elias’s work as an alternative solution for many of the core conceptual problems in organization studies as well as the distinctive contribution of The Court Society, sketches the main elements of the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by organisation scholars to date, concentrating on a selection of studies drawing on Elias, and concludes with some reflections on the future directions that process-figurational theory might take in organization studies. The core line of argument is that Elias provides a range of powerful theoretical resources to transcend many of the problems usually addressed through the work of Foucault, actor-network theory, postmodernist and post-structuralist theory, especially the supposed agency/structure problem, constituting an alternative and effective analysis of organizational life that is anchored in the relational and processual strands of classical sociological theory.enThis is an open access, peer-reviewed article published by Firenze University Press (http://www.fupress.com/cambio) and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Norbert EliasOrganizationProcessRelationFigurationHabitusCivilizing processPowerJournal Article81614115710.13128/cambio-239112019-05-21https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/