THE POLITICS OF EMOTION - A FEMINIST READING OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: MUMBY, DK; PUTNAM, LL
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.1992.4281983
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 465-486
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; POST MODERNISM; work; expression; customers; feelings; STORES

摘要

A poststructuralist feminist reading of Herbert Simon's construct, bounded rationality. is presented in this article. Following from this notion. it is maintained that even though bounded rationality provides a modified critique of pure rationality, this concept is grounded in male-centered assumptions that exclude alternative modes of organizing. Through a feminist deconstructive process. bounded emotionality is introduced as an alternative organizing construct. The premises. conditions of organizing, and implications of this alternative are discussed and illustrated. Finally. theorists are urged to move beyond the traditional dichotomy between rationality and emotionality, in order to question the assumptions that underlie traditional constructs and to create new grounds for future theoretical activities.