Operationalizing the postmodernity construct for efficient organizational change management

Abstract

As postmodernity is increasingly discussed in the management disciplines, there is growing acceptance that the postmodernity debates challenge the adequacy of traditional research and teaching practices. Argues that, to date, this has been interpreted primarily as a need for new theoretical and/or pedagogical content. Believes the issue is more fundamental. Contrasting modernist and postmodernist theories of post‐industrialism, argues that postmodern transformations of work and society throw the very forms, even the existence of organizational theorizing, academic business education, and “management” as it is currently understood into question. While it is directed at those who have some background with these debates, attempts to provide background and citations sufficient to point the new reader towards other commentary on these issues.

Citation

White, R.F. and Jacques, R. (1995), "Operationalizing the postmodernity construct for efficient organizational change management", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 45-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819510084364