... at the heart of what is called “postmodernism”. The latter is a turn away from the subject, from individualism to a more intersubjective frame of reference. In line with social constructionism, meaning is therefore co‐created and as stated by Robine (2011 , p. 42) “there is no other reality...

... in a way that showcases critical thinking: an easy target enables a more immediate and transparent interpretative text‐making dialogue between theory and praxis. We see this engagement as a move towards more reflective and responsible practice by managers. More precisely, we hope to show that postmodern...

...?” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Bureaucracy Civil service Postmodernism Organizational change United Kingdom Since the early‐1980s, a growing literature in a range of management sub‐disciplines has asserted that the age of bureaucracy has ended or is ending. It is said...

... for the revitalization of organizational life. In particular, feminist criticism drawing on, and contributing to, postmodern forms of inquiry and interpretation, offers new visions of critical organizational analysis. This article addresses feminist postmodern critiques, and particularly discusses two feminist...

...David Boje; Grace Ann Rosile The purpose of this article is to explore the similarities and differences in the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) method and postmodern approaches to theatre. Neither metaphorical nor managerialist, SEAM's perspective allows that the organization is theatre...

.../ dboje/TDgameboard.html ). Based on this comparison, the paper suggests that SEAM is broader‐based, more integrative, and more postmodern (more multi‐vocal and power‐conscious) than most other TD methodologies. Social economics Organizational development Postmodernism Management The purpose...

...Michel Péron; Monique Péron This article brings out the numerous connections that can be established between the socio‐economic approach to management (SEAM) considered as an architecture and the postmodern movement. The authors analyze the contribution of SEAM to the postmodern management approach...

...Cheryl Simrell King Edited by David John   Farmer . Papers on the Art of Anti‐administration . Burke, Virginia : Chatelaine Press   1998 . 210 pp , ISBN: ISBN 1574200623   US$25.95 Public administration Postmodernism Organizational change Farmer has brought...

...Kevin C. Wooten; Louis P. White The purpose of this article is twofold; first, to demonstrate a linkage between the tenets of justice theory and OD core values, assumptions and ethical beliefs and, second, to show the role of this linkage as it applies to postmodern organizations in terms...

...Shayne Grice; Maria Humphries Critical Management Studies (CMS) in Postmodernity (PM) has been playfully posed as a double oxymoron, i.e. “CMS” to examine the contradiction of an emancipatory discourse predominantly cast in a managerialist tenor; “CMS in PM” to examine the feasibility of taking any...

...David Barry Explores how developments in the ground‐breaking field of narrative family therapy might be applied to organizational change efforts. After an introductory discussion of some of narrative therapy’s key orientations and practices (e.g. postmodern notions of language and power, influence...

... themes of people’s organizational experience and leaves us with a more partial appreciation of organizational life. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Corporate communication Narratives Organizational learning Postmodernism JOCM 10,1 The legitimation of learning in organizational change Carl Rhodes...