Robert Chia

Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first full-length text with a systematic analysis of postmodernist theories and their implications for organizational analysis.
In a world of management characterized by uncertainty, volatility, and change it offers a mode for:
Upstream and Downstream Thinking
Representationalism in the Social Sciences
"Modern" and "Postmodern" Approaches to Oragnizational Analysis
Thinking Postmodern: Reconceptualizing Reality, Representation and Organization
Language and the Logic of Organization
Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice
Implications: Postmodern Organizational Analysis and the Educational Process

Produktdetails

• De Gruyter Studies in Organization 77
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1996.
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9783110145595
• ISBN-10: 3110145596
• Artikelnr.: 06700773

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Upstream and Downstream Thinking -- Part 1: The Organization of Theory -- Chapter 1: Ontological Realism and the Ideology of Representation -- Chapter 2: Epistemologica! Realism and Organization Theory -- Chapter 3: The Problem of Reflexivity in Organizational Analysis -- Part 2: Upstream Thinking and Postmodern Organizational Analysis -- Chapter 4: Reconfiguring Truth, Reality, Representation and Organization -- Chapter 5: Organization as Representation: Power, Economy and Remote Control -- Chapter 6: Thinking Processually: From 'Organizations' to Organizing Processes -- Part 3: Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice -- Chapter 7: Logocentrism and Deconstruction -- Chapter 8: Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice -- Conclusions -- References -- Index -- Backmatter