Postmodern Management and Organization Theory

Edited by:

David Boje - New Mexico State University, USA
Robert P. Gephart - University of Alberta, Canada
Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery - George Mason University, Australia

Other Titles in:
Organization Studies (General)

February 1996 | 424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Contents

This thought-provoking critique of postmodern theory provides an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history, and assembles a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy - including feminist and cultural postmodern philosophies. Addressing the future of the postmodern influence on management and organization theory and method, the book also establishes an agenda for future research.

Robert P Gephart Jr, David M Boje, and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery

Introduction

Postmodern Management and the Coming Crises of Organizational Analysis

PART ONE: DECONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: CRITIQUE, REFLECTIONS, AND ALTERNATIVES

Robert P Gephart Jr

Management, Social Issues, and the Postmodern Era

John Hassard

Exploring the Terrain of Modernism and Postmodernism in Organization Theory

David M Boje, Dale E Fitzgibbons, and David S Steingard

Storytelling at Administrative Science Quarterly

Warding Off the Postmodern Barbarians

PART TWO: BEYOND MAN-AGE-MENT - GENDER, DISCOURSE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL VOICES

Patricia Bradshaw

Woman as Constituent Directors

Re-Reading Current Texts Using a Feminist-Postmodernist Approach

Ian Atkin and John Hassard

Liberation from Within?

Organizational Implications of Irigaray's Concept of `Residue'

David Barry and Mary Ann Hazen

Do You Take Your Body to Work?

Jerry M Calton and Nancy B Kurland

A Theory of Stakeholder Enabling

Giving Voice to an Emerging Postmodern Praxis

PART THREE: FROM TECHNO-LOGY TO ECO-LOGY: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Alfonso Montuori and Ronald E Purser

Ecological Futures

Systems Theory, Postmodernism, and Participative Learning in an Age of Uncertainty

Robert P Gephart Jr

Simulacral Environments

Reflexivity and the Natural Ecology of Organizations

PART FOUR: POSTMODERN PEDAGOGY

Grace Ann Rosile and David M Boje

Pedagogy for the Postmodern Management Classroom

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Ghazi F Binzagr and Michael R Manning

Reconstructions of Choice

Advocating a Constructivist Approach to Management Education

Eric H Neilsen

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Managerial Competencies

A Multidiscourse Reading

PART FIVE: CRITICAL ISSUES IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES

Stewart R Clegg and John T Gray

Metaphors of Globalization

Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery and Punya Upadhyaya

Organizations as a Play of Multiple and Dynamic Discourses

An Example from a Global Social Change Organization

Kenneth J Gergen and Diana Whitney

Technologies of Representation in the Global Corporation

Power and Polyphony

Robert P Gephart Jr, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, and David M Boje

Conclusions

Reconstructing Organizations for Future Survival

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