Toward an Agenda of Radical Organizing: Introduction to the Special Issue*
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
- Vol. 35 (3) , 281-299
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1998.tb00724.x
Abstract
Ce document présente et contextualise la collection d'articles du numéro spécial sur les crises organisationnelles. En contradiction avec les notions ayant cours sur les crises organisationnelles comme changement qui menace l'existence, la croissance ou le rendement d'une organisation, le terme est ici défini comme l'existence géné‐rale des processus organisationnels qui reproduisent de façon routi‐nière les pratiques ethnocentriques, à caractère sexuel, et anti‐humaines recréant continuellement des environnements organisationnels comme des sites (socio) psychologiquement préjudiciables de l'interaction humaine. Soulignant la persistance des réalités organisationnelles et l'absence relative de theories alternatives de l'organisation, l'article trace les contours d'une théorie radicale de l'organisation.This paper introduces and contextualises the collection of papers that constitute the special issue on organizational crisis. In contradiction to mainstream notions of organizational crisis as a change that threatens the existence, growth or profitability of an organization, the term is here defined as the widespread existence of organizational processes that routinely reproduce ethnocentric, gendered, and other anti‐human practices that continually recreate organizational environments as (social) psychologically damaging sites of human interaction. Pointing to the persistence of organizational realities and the relative absence of alternative theories of organizing, the paper outlines the contours of a radical theory of organization.Keywords
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