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This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power//knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device, a mechanism that seeks to alter rational choice rather than constrain bodies. This raises questions about Foucault's link
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: The Contribution of Michel Foucault
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: The Contribution of Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's untimely death in 1984, at the age of 57, put to an end a steady stream of scholarship which has a direct, though poorly recognized, relevance for the study of organizations. In this paper, an attempt will be made to briefly explicate the role played by Foucault's work in the postmodernism debate and, in the light of this contribution, to show its possible beneficial impact upon contemporary organizational analysis.
As we have seen (Cooper and Burrell, 1988), the modernism–postmodernism debate is multi-faceted, but in some ways it is characterized by Habermas's defence of the modernist position against a line of French thinkers leading ‘from Bataille via ...
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