Past postmodernism? Reflections and tentative directions

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Calás, MB; Smircich, L
• 署名单位: University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259347
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 649-671
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; POST MODERNISM; KNOWLEDGE; management; POLITICS; science; INCOMMENSURABILITY; RESEARCHER; privilege; SEDUCTION

摘要

In this article we first reflect on the significant and positive impact of postmodernism for organizational theorizing during the past decade. Through several examples we point to contributions that poststructuralist perspectives have brought to the field. Finally, we consider four contemporary theoretical tendencies-feminist poststructuralist theorizing, postcolonial analyses, actor-network theory, and narrative approaches to knowledge-as heirs (apparent) of the postmodern turn for organizational theorizing past postmodernism.