Theory after the Postmodern Condition
通过重读利奥塔的《后现代状况》，质疑组织研究中关于后现代理论的常见假设，并探讨过去十年组织理论的发展及未来前景，涉及理论消费、流行概念和学科分化。
In the context of an apparent crisis of grand narratives and continuing reference to the postmodern condition, this article considers aspects of the development of theory in organization studies over the past decade and offers some reflections on prospects for the future. These issues are presented via a reading of Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition and the way that this book has been received in organization studies. This `paralogical' reading contests a number of widespread assumptions in organization studies about Lyotard and French theory, and provides the opening for a discussion of the future of theory in organization studies. This involves asking questions about (1) the consumption of theory in organization studies; (2) the concepts in currency in organization studies today; and (3) the shifting divisions of organization studies.