Organization Studies articles from September 1995

Organization Studies archives from September 1995

Critique in the name of what? Postmodernism and critical approaches to organization.
September 22, 1995... `Good old Baudrillard! For that I think he should be sent there. With a toothbrush and a can of Evian, or whatever it is he drinks.' (Edward Said's response to being told that Baudrillard felt the gulf war was a hyper-real non-event, Radical...

From modern to postmodern organizational analysis.
September 22, 1995... `A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Thus understood, postmodernism is not modernism at its end, but in a nascent state, and this state is recurrent.' (J. F. Lyotard: The Postmodern Explained) The terms `modern' and...

The argumentational texture of transaction cost economics.
September 22, 1995... Descriptors: transaction cost economics, deconstruction, opportunism Introduction Transaction cost economics (TCE), largely developed by Oliver Williamson (Williamson 1975, 1979, 1985, 1991), purports to answer questions central to...

Telling organizational tales: on the role of narrative fiction in the study of organizations.
September 22, 1995... Introduction `[I]t may be about time we fully acknowledge the novelist's or poet's fiction in our midst for what it really is. We already admit imaginative reconstructions in social science if they are called hypotheses and if the claim is...

Buffering organizational identity in the marketing culture.
September 22, 1995... Introduction The Marketing Culture The marketing culture is a culture saturated with images and signs (Baudrillard 1981, 1988; Perniola 1980) carefully devised and organized to assert, consolidate and maintain particular identities. As the...

Differing managerial responses to change in Poland.
September 22, 1995... The paper is about the alternative ways in which managers and enterprises respond to the contemporary situation in Poland. Adopting a cultural perspective and interpretive approach, it first seeks to establish in which ways the social role of...

A rejoinder to and reply from Weaver and Gioia. (response to Gary R. Weaver and Dennis A. Gioia, Organization Studies, vol. 15, p.565)
September 22, 1995... Descriptors: metatheory, structuration theory, social paradigms Weaver and Gioia (1994) made a constructive contribution to the debate regarding the incommensurability of social science paradigms. We find considerable value in their insistence...