解构时代的组织理论:二元论、性别与后现代主义再审视

Organization Theory in the Age of Deconstruction: Dualism, Gender and Postmodernism Revisited

ORGANIZATION STUDIES · 1997
被引 185
人大 AFT50ABS 4

中文导读

探讨在表征认识论衰落的背景下,组织理论核心概念(如行动与结构)面临的问题与前景,并引入解构主义和后现代女性主义视角来超越二元论困境。

Abstract

This paper will focus on the problems and prospects for organization theory when some of its central concepts are in question under the 'weight' of the demise of an episteme of representation (Benhabib 1992). Fundamental con cepts such as 'action' and 'structure' have been examined critically over several years with the aim of removing either voluntarist or determinist and individualist or holistic tendencies (Giddens 1979; Knights and Willmott 1983, 1985). Though questioning the dualistic separation of these categories from a phenomenological or social constructionist perspective, these perspectives still presume an episteme of representation in which the categories of the dualism (subject and object) can be operationalized to represent phenomena with con crete existence in the world. Structure and agency remain in a relationship of exteriority with respect to one another (Game 1991). Organization theory, as conventionally constructed, can readily accommodate such a critique of dualism as long as the categories remain relatively durable, stable and in a relationship of exteriority to each other. However, the demise of an episteme of representation spells trouble for the durability and stability of these categories. Drawing on a range of discourses, the paper seeks to indicate a variety of solutions to the dualistic problematic ending with the work of the deconstruc tionist approaches of a limited sample of postmodern feminists.

组织理论后现代主义性别研究认识论社会学