Shows that the post‐modern perspective has valuable implications for managing organizational and other change. In arguing for this claim, explains the starting point ‐ that post‐modernism is philosophical scepticism. Analyses the meaning of Derrida’s post‐modern view of justice, and explains why it is consistent with scepticism. Indicates that this view opposes domination and privileges hesitancy in imposing solutions. Discusses the nature and some uses of what is described as the “in‐between”. Post‐modern scepticism, justice as hesitation and acting in the in‐between are shown to constitute a post‐modern perspective which opens up prospects and vistas in an age where non‐hierarchical and multicultural interactions are useful. Opposing domination, for instance, translates into liberating previously marginalized voices, like those of subordinates, women, minorities, the sexually policed and the economically dominated.
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1 August 1996
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August 01 1996
Justice, hesitancy and the in‐between
David John Farmer;
David John Farmer
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Rosemary L. Farmer
Rosemary L. Farmer
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7816
Print ISSN: 0953-4814
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Journal of Organizational Change Management (1996) 9 (4): 24–33.
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Farmer DJ, Farmer RL (1996), "Justice, hesitancy and the in‐between". Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 9 No. 4 pp. 24–33, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819610124034
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