Postmodernism and organizations / edited by John Hassard and Martin Parker.
Contributor(s): Hassard, John
| Parker, Martin.
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BookPublisher: London : Sage, 1993Description: xv, 240 p ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 080398880X .Subject(s): Organizational behavior | Organizational changeDDC classification: 302.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 302.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00075784 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: (pages 213-233) and index.
Introduction / Martin Parker and John Hassard -- Postmodernism and organizational analysis: an overview / John Hassard -- Towards postmodernism -- From interpretation to representation / Paul Jeffcutt -- Deconstruction in the study of organizations / Steve Linstead -- Eco and the bunnymen / Gibson Burrell -- 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 Bjorkegren -- 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 -- Departures from postmodernism -- Organizations and modernity: continuity and discontinuity in organization theory / Michael I. Reed -- Postmodernism: fatal distraction / Paul Thompson -- Life after Jean-Francois / Martin Parker.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
- An Overview
- Part 1 Towards Postmodernism
- From Interpretation to Representation
- Deconstruction in the Study of Organizations
- Eco and the Bunnymen
- Part 2 Debates with Postmodernism
- Modernism, Postmodernism and Motivation, Or Why Expectancy Theory Failed to Come Up to Expectation
- What Can Organization and Management Theory Learn from Art?
- The Play of Metaphors
- Organizational Discourse and the Gendering of Identity
- Organizations, Multiple Oppressions and Postmodernism
- Part 3 Departures from Postmodernism
- Organizations and Modernity
- Continuity and Discontinuity in Organization Theory
- Postmodernism
- Fatal Distraction
- Life After Jean-Fran[ce]cois