Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 24 (4) , 649-671
- https://doi.org/10.2307/259347
Abstract
In this article we first reflect on the significant and positive impact of postmodernism for organizational theorizing during the past decade. Through several examples we point to contributions that poststructuralist perspectives have brought to the field. Finally, we consider four contemporary theoretical tendencies-feminist poststructuralist theorizing, postcolonial analyses, actor-network theory, and narrative approaches to knowledge-as heirs (apparent) of the postmodern turn for organizational theorizing past postmodernism.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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