ABSTRACT
Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of what it means to organize.
The essays consider three areas: representing organization, knowing organization, and the becoming of organization. With originality and flair, the contributors make a powerful case for the need for a new philosophy of management and organization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|13 pages
Introduction
Are Organizations Good to Think with? Thinking Things Through and Thinking Through Things
part 1|71 pages
Representing Organization
chapter 2|20 pages
Back to the Roots of the Linguistic Turn
Arguments Against Causal Social Research Reconsidered
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part 2|74 pages
‘Knowing' Organization
chapter 6|13 pages
On the Applicability of ‘Alien' Concepts to Organisational Analysis
Some Criteria for Inter-Domain Conceptual Transfer
chapter 9|20 pages
The Odyssey of Instrumental Rationality
Confronting the Enlightenment's Interior Other
part 3|60 pages
The Becoming of Organization Theory
