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Postmodern Management and Organization Theory

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Organization Studies

424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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
Greenback Company

 
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

 

David M. Boje

David M. Boje is an amateur blacksmith artist, & Professor of Storytelling, Distinguished University Professor, and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow in Management Department at New Mexico State University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2011 for his contributions to quantum storytelling. He does keynote conference presentations and university seminars around the world. He is founder and president of Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry| founder and past editor, Tamara Journal and Chair of the NMSU Sustainability Council. He is former Bank of America Endowed Professorship of... More About Author

Robert P. Gephart, Jr.

Robert P. Gephart Jr. is a professor of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta’s School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1979. Dr. Gephart has published in several important journals including the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, and Qualitative Sociology. He is also the author of Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research (SAGE, 1988) and a coeditor of Postmodern Management and Organization Theory (SAGE, 1996). Dr... More About Author

Tojo J. Thatchenkery

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