Postmodernism and Organizations

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8880-4
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 401 g

Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary theorizing of organization, this important and thought-provoking volume explores the implications of postmodernist/poststructuralist thinking for organizations and organizational analysis.

The book introduces the concepts underpinning a postmodern organizational analysis, contrasting modern and postmodern forms of explanation and addressing the distinctions between postmodernity and postmodernism. Succeeding chapters then examine and assess the interplay of major postmodernist themes - such as deconstruction, desire, difference, pluralism and relativism - with key topics of organizational analysis and research. The final section is one of critique, as its authors variously argue that postmodernism fails adequately to address the realities of power, control and change in a globalizing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hassard, John

Parker, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Martin Parker and John Hassard
Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis - John Hassard
An Overview
PART ONE: TOWARDS POSTMODERNISM
From Interpretation to Representation - Paul Jeffcutt
Deconstruction in the Study of Organizations - Steve Linstead
Eco and the Bunnymen - Gibson Burrell
PART TWO: DEBATES WITH POSTMODERNISM
Modernism, Postmodernism and Motivation, Or Why Expectancy Theory Failed to Come Up to Expectation - Pippa Carter and Norman Jackson
What Can Organization and Management Theory Learn from Art? - Dag Bj[um]orkegren
The Play of Metaphors - Mats Alvesson
Organizational Discourse and the Gendering of Identity - Albert J Mills
Organizations, Multiple Oppressions and Postmodernism - Jeff Hearn and Wendy Parkin
PART THREE: DEPARTURES FROM POSTMODERNISM
Organizations and Modernity - Michael I Reed
Continuity and Discontinuity in Organization Theory
Postmodernism - f002 Paul Thompson
Fatal Distraction
Life After Jean-Fran[ce]cois - Martin Parker

Über Autor(innen)

Parker, Martin
Martin Parker is a Professor of Culture and Organization at the School of Management, Leicester University