Past Postmodernism? Reflections and Tentative Directions
反思后现代主义对组织理论的积极影响,并通过实例指出后结构主义视角的贡献,最后探讨四种当代理论倾向作为后现代之后组织理论的可能继承者。
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.