From Interpretation to Representation in Organizational Analysis: Postmodernism, Ethnography and Organizational Symbolism
论证对组织的理解离不开对理解的组织,通过考察组织象征主义中的叙事形式,揭示组织理论与实践中的根本问题,连接当前组织分析与组织研究的长期议题。
Essentially, this paper argues that the understanding of organization is insepar able from the organization of understanding. This argument is developed and sustained through detailed consideration of the problematics of interpretation and of representation in organizational analysis, focusing on the understanding of significant problems within a particular arena of activity (organizational symbolism). Accordingly, from an analysis of forms of narrative in organizational symbolism, the paper articulates issues that are fundamental to both the theory and practice of organization. Through such a consideration of paradoxes of tex tuality in the inscription of order, current concerns in organizational analysis become connected to long-standing problems in Organization Studies.