"Organization theory" is the study of the structure and functioning of organizations and the behavior of groups and individuals within them. It is an emerging interdisciplinary quasi-independent science, drawing primarily on the disciplines of psychology and sociology but also on economics and to a lesser extent on production engineering. The...
Postmodernism is beginning to enter organization studies. After introducing the contours of the debate, some of the early contributions are critically reviewed and then subjected to sympathetic scrutiny. A distinction between the periodization 'post-modem' and a 'postmodern' epistemology is explored in terms of its consequences for writing about organizations. Postmodernism...
The organizational characteristics of contemporary Japanese enterprises are considered in detail. Overall, there appear to be some significant differences when they are compared with more typically modernist organization. Perhaps that is sufficient reason for claiming that postmodern organization forms appear to be implicit in these developments. There are evident differences,...