Postmodern Management and Organization Theory

This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium. --David J. Farmer, State University of New York Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it stands today. The text gives an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history and assembles in one volume a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy--including feminist, cultural, and environmental philosophies. The contributors address the future of postmodern advancement in management and organization theory and method, establishing an agenda for future research. This thought-provoking book will be useful to scholars, researchers and upper-level students in organization theory, organization behavior and change, management, and industrial psychology.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
David M. Boje is an amateur blacksmith artist, & Professor of Storytelling, Distinguished University Professor, and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow in Management Department at New Mexico State University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2011 for his contributions to quantum storytelling. He does keynote conference presentations and university seminars around the world. He is founder and president of Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry| founder and past editor, Tamara Journal and Chair of the NMSU Sustainability Council. He is former Bank of America Endowed Professorship of Management (awarded September 2006-2010), and past Arthur Owens Professorship in Business Administration (June 2003-June 2006) in the Management Department at New Mexico State University. Robert P. Gephart Jr. is a professor of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta’s School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1979. Dr. Gephart has published in several important journals including the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, and Qualitative Sociology. He is also the author of Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research (SAGE, 1988) and a coeditor of Postmodern Management and Organization Theory (SAGE, 1996). Dr. Gephart served as an associate editor of Organizational Research Methods and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review. He received the 2015 SAGE Distinguished Career Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. His current research interests include ethnostatistics, risk sensemaking, and organizational change management.