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Parable: Emile′s Question
William B. WolfA parable related to ethics among organizations, particularly withregard to relationships between managers and their workforce.
Organizational Stories as a Window on Affect in Organizations
William Van Buskirk, Dennis McGrathResearch on organizational culture has provided much neededsubtlety in understanding organizational events. However, it has acognitive bias which leaves implicit the treatment of…
Empowerment, Culture, and Postmodern Organizing: Deconstructing the Nordstrom Employee Handbook
H.L. GoodallOffers a deconstructive reading of the Nordstrom EmployeeHandbook. The purpose of the reading is to demonstrate how thisdocument serves as a representational sign of postmodern…
Postmodern Management?
Stewart R. CleggTaken from an inaugural address at the University of St Andrews,Scotland. Discusses postmodernism, particularly regarding Japaneseinfluences in this sphere but also looks at the…
Bureaucratic Discourse and the Goddess: Towards an Ecofeminist Critique and Rearticulation
Connie Bullis, Hollis GlaserDescribes and positions ecofeminism as a critical voice inpostmodern organizational theory. Ecofeminism, because of itsconnections with spirituality, feminism, and ecology…
Talking the Post‐Fordist Talk,...but Walking the Post‐industrial Walk
Robert D. WinsorRecent innovations applied to the design and management ofproduction in the United States have been termed“post‐Fordist”, in an effort to distinguish these methodsfrom those of…
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