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
December 1995 | 424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
"This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium."
--David J. Farmer,
State University of New York
Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it stands today. The text gives an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history and assembles in one volume a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy--including feminist, cultural, and environmental philosophies. The contributors address the future of postmodern advancement in management and organization theory and method, establishing an agenda for future research.
This thought-provoking book will be useful to scholars, researchers and upper-level students in organization theory, organization behavior and change, management, and industrial psychology.
Robert P Gephart Jr, David M Boje, and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery
Introduction
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
PART TWO: BEYOND MAN-AGE-MENT - GENDER, DISCOURSE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL VOICES
Patricia Bradshaw
Woman as Constituent Directors
Ian Atkin and John Hassard
Liberation from Within?
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
PART THREE: FROM TECHNO-LOGY TO ECO-LOGY: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Alfonso Montuori and Ronald E Purser
Ecological Futures
Robert P Gephart Jr
Simulacral Environments
PART FOUR: POSTMODERN PEDAGOGY
Grace Ann Rosile and David M Boje
Pedagogy for the Postmodern Management Classroom
Ghazi F Binzagr and Michael R Manning
Reconstructions of Choice
Eric H Neilsen
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Managerial Competencies
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
Kenneth J Gergen and Diana Whitney
Technologies of Representation in the Global Corporation
Robert P Gephart Jr, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, and David M Boje
Conclusions