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作者:MUMBY, DK; PUTNAM, LL
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 or...
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作者:KNIGHTS, D
摘要:This article draws on the work of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault, in order to problematize conventional approaches to the study of management and organizations that have been thought of as informed by a positive epistemology. Such a methodology encourages researchers to produce positive knowledge in the form of representations of what they consider to be the real world of management. This involves a concentration on what may be seen as the outcome of human activity in the form of seco...
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作者:NKOMO, SM
摘要:This article analyzes how race has been studied in organization scholarship and demonstrates how our approaches to the study of race reflect and reify particular historical and social meanings of race. It is argued that the production of knowledge about race must be understood within a racial ideology embedded in a Eurocentric view of the world. Finally, a re-vision of the very concept of race and its historical and political meaning is suggested for rewriting race as a necessary and productiv...
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作者:AKTOUF, O
摘要:The author argues that the present mainstream writings on, and debates about new ideas of management and theories of organization, lack adequate theoretical assumptions and background. He proposes that those who question the future and efficiency of Western organizations need to rely more on a radical-humanistic and neo-Marxist conceptualization than on the functionalistic tradition. Therefore, management theorists and practitioners should integrate such a concept in order to better understand...
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作者:JACQUES, R
摘要:Discussion of what constitutes good scholarly critique in organizational studies usually emphasizes procedural issues. The values guiding critique are seldom discussed. This article characterizes current critical practices as an ethic of judgment and draws from feminist theory to suggest the possibility of critique informed by an ethic of care. The purpose of this comparison is to draw attention to the important role the values that structure critique play in the development of organization th...
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作者:ROMANELLI, E
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作者:ALVESSON, M; WILLMOTT, H
作者单位:University of Manchester
摘要:The article reconceptualizes the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies and develops an approach that (a) takes into account recent criticism of its totalizing tendencies raised by poststructuralists and (b) makes it more sensitive to the particularities of-and thereby more relevant for-management studies. The first part of the article reviews and discusses tendencies in critical theory toward negativism, essentialism, and intellectualism. The second part reformulates t...