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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. Introduction – Robert P Gephart Jr, David M Boje, and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery Postmodern Management and the Coming Crises of Organizational Analysis PART ONE: DECONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: CRITIQUE, REFLECTIONS, AND ALTERNATIVES Management, Social Issues, and the Postmodern Era – Robert P Gephart Jr Exploring the Terrain of Modernism and Postmodernism in Organization Theory – John Hassard Storytelling at Administrative Science Quarterly – David M Boje, Dale E Fitzgibbons, and David S Steingard Warding Off the Postmodern Barbarians PART TWO: BEYOND MAN-AGE-MENT – GENDER, DISCOURSE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL VOICES Woman as Constituent Directors – Patricia Bradshaw Re-Reading Current Texts Using a Feminist-Postmodernist Approach Liberation from Within? – Ian Atkin and John Hassard Organizational Implications of Irigaray’s Concept of `Residue’ Do You Take Your Body to Work? – David Barry and Mary Ann Hazen A Theory of Stakeholder Enabling – Jerry M Calton and Nancy B Kurland Giving Voice to an Emerging Postmodern Praxis PART THREE: FROM TECHNO-LOGY TO ECO-LOGY: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Ecological Futures – Alfonso Montuori and Ronald E Purser Systems Theory, Postmodernism, and Participative Learning in an Age of Uncertainty Simulacral Environments – Robert P Gephart Jr Reflexivity and the Natural Ecology of Organizations PART FOUR: POSTMODERN PEDAGOGY Pedagogy for the Postmodern Management Classroom – Grace Ann Rosile and David M Boje Greenback Company Reconstructions of Choice – Ghazi F Binzagr and Michael R Manning Advocating a Constructivist Approach to Management Education Modernism, Postmodernism, and Managerial Competencies – Eric H Neilsen A Multidiscourse Reading PART FIVE: CRITICAL ISSUES IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES Metaphors of Globalization – Stewart R Clegg and John T Gray Organizations as a Play of Multiple and Dynamic Discourses – Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery and Punya Upadhyaya An Example from a Global Social Change Organization Technologies of Representation in the Global Corporation – Kenneth J Gergen and Diana Whitney Power and Polyphony Conclusions – Robert P Gephart Jr, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, and David M Boje Reconstructing Organizations for Future Survival
