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Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary theorizing of organization, this important and thought-provoking volume explores the implications of postmodernist/poststructuralist thinking for organizations and organizational analysis.

The book introduces the concepts underpinning a postmodern organizational analysis, contrasting modern and postmodern forms of explanation and addressing the distinctions between postmodernity and postmodernism. Succeeding chapters then examine and assess the interplay of major postmodernist themes - such as deconstruction, desire, difference, pluralism and relativism - with key topics of organizational analysis and research. The final section is one of critique, as its authors variously argue that postmodernism fails adequately to address the realities of power, control and change in a globalizing world.

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• Introduction
• Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
• An Overview
• Part 1 Towards Postmodernism
• From Interpretation to Representation
• Deconstruction in the Study of Organizations
• Eco and the Bunnymen
• Part 2 Debates with Postmodernism
• Modernism, Postmodernism and Motivation, Or Why Expectancy Theory Failed to Come Up to Expectation
• What Can Organization and Management Theory Learn from Art?
• The Play of Metaphors
• Organizational Discourse and the Gendering of Identity
• Organizations, Multiple Oppressions and Postmodernism
• Part 3 Departures from Postmodernism
• Organizations and Modernity
• Continuity and Discontinuity in Organization Theory
• Postmodernism
• Fatal Distraction
• Life After Jean-Fran[ce]cois

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John Hassard is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Keele University. Martin Parker is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Staffordshire.