Postmodernism and Organizations [Paperback]

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 authorsEssential 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`I very much liked Dr Michael Reed's chapter on continuities and discontinuities, as well as Professor Paul Thompson on postmodernism as a `fatal distraction', and Professor Gibson Burrell on the university in postmodern times' - Journal of General Management

`Most of the papers are written with an unusual degree of wit and good humour which gives the collection an aura of seriousness tempered by a feellC×