Review Article: The Organization of Thought
这本书不研究具体组织，而是质疑和‘解构’我们对‘组织’的常识理解，探讨如何组织思想、知识和知识主张，适合对后结构主义理论感兴趣的人。
This is not a book about ‘organizations’. It is not a presentation of a new ‘theory of organizations’. Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice (OADP) does not provide a new ‘methodology’ for understanding ‘organizations’ or ‘actions’ in organizations. ‘Organizational analysis’, Chia writes, ‘has for too long concerned itself with the articulating of theories which purport to accurately describe how organizations function’ (p. 20). Departing from a preoccupation with describing and analyzing organizations as entities or combinations of actions, the book is about ‘organization’ in the sense of the organization of theory. It is about the organization of thinking, the organization of knowledge and the production of knowledge claims. Instead of assuming the adequacy of our commonsense orientation to and construction of organizations as entities or objects of research, OADP sets out to question and ‘undo’ the established understanding of ‘organizations’ and organizing processes as concrete, observable phenomena which exist ‘out there’ in the world waiting to be discovered and explained by the organizational analyst. The book is a skilful, thoughtful elaboration of an alternative (‘postmodern’) style of thinking which is committed to ‘turn the given into a question and the familiar into the unfamiliar in order to challenge the modernist cognitive stance that takes things for granted’ (Chia, 1995: 597). It is essential reading for anyone who is curious about post-structuralist theory and is interested to consider how it might change the conduct and self-understanding of Volume 6(3): 559–571 Copyright © 1999 SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi)