Postmodern Management and Organization Theory

David M. Boje is an amateur blacksmith artist, & Professor of Storytelling, Distinguished University Professor, and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow in Management Department at New Mexico State University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2011 for his contributions to quantum storytelling. He does keynote conference presentations and university seminars around the world. He is founder and president of Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry| founder and past editor, Tamara Journal and Chair of the NMSU Sustainability Council. He is former Bank of America Endowed Professorship of Management (awarded September 2006-2010), and past Arthur Owens Professorship in Business Administration (June 2003-June 2006) in the Management Department at New Mexico State University. Robert P. Gephart Jr. is a professor of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta’s School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1979. Dr. Gephart has published in several important journals including the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, and Qualitative Sociology. He is also the author of Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research (SAGE, 1988) and a coeditor of Postmodern Management and Organization Theory (SAGE, 1996). Dr. Gephart served as an associate editor of Organizational Research Methods and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review. He received the 2015 SAGE Distinguished Career Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. His current research interests include ethnostatistics, risk sensemaking, and organizational change management.

• Introduction - Robert P Gephart Jr, David M Boje, and Tojo Joseph ThatchenkeryPostmodern Management and the Coming Crises of Organizational AnalysisPART ONE: DECONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: CRITIQUE, REFLECTIONS, AND ALTERNATIVESManagement, Social Issues, and the Postmodern Era - Robert P Gephart JrExploring the Terrain of Modernism and Postmodernism in Organization Theory - John HassardStorytelling at Administrative Science Quarterly - David M Boje, Dale E Fitzgibbons, and David S SteingardWarding Off the Postmodern Barbarians PART TWO: BEYOND MAN-AGE-MENT - GENDER, DISCOURSE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL VOICESWoman as Constituent Directors - Patricia BradshawRe-Reading Current Texts Using a Feminist-Postmodernist ApproachLiberation from Within? - Ian Atkin and John HassardOrganizational Implications of Irigaray′s Concept of `Residue′Do You Take Your Body to Work? - David Barry and Mary Ann HazenA Theory of Stakeholder Enabling - Jerry M Calton and Nancy B KurlandGiving Voice to an Emerging Postmodern PraxisPART THREE: FROM TECHNO-LOGY TO ECO-LOGY: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTEcological Futures - Alfonso Montuori and Ronald E PurserSystems Theory, Postmodernism, and Participative Learning in an Age of Uncertainty Simulacral Environments - Robert P Gephart JrReflexivity and the Natural Ecology of OrganizationsPART FOUR: POSTMODERN PEDAGOGYPedagogy for the Postmodern Management Classroom - Grace Ann Rosile and David M BojeGreenback CompanyReconstructions of Choice - Ghazi F Binzagr and Michael R ManningAdvocating a Constructivist Approach to Management EducationModernism, Postmodernism, and Managerial Competencies - Eric H NeilsenA Multidiscourse ReadingPART FIVE: CRITICAL ISSUES IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIESMetaphors of Globalization - Stewart R Clegg and John T GrayOrganizations as a Play of Multiple and Dynamic Discourses - Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery and Punya UpadhyayaAn Example from a Global Social Change OrganizationTechnologies of Representation in the Global Corporation - Kenneth J Gergen and Diana WhitneyPower and PolyphonyConclusions - Robert P Gephart Jr, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, and David M BojeReconstructing Organizations for Future Survival