Diversity as Community and Communions: A Taoist Alternative to Modernity
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Organizational Change Management
- Vol. 7 (6) , 49-58
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819410072728
Abstract
Contrasts the linear narrative of modernity with the process narrative of the ancient Taoists of China. Written in process narrative, provides a narrative based on the metaphor of the spiral rather than the straight arrow of modernity. Presents a premodern Taoist definition of diversity and applies it to the community literature as an alternative to modernist organizational theory based on process narrative.Keywords
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