ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book intends to discuss some ramifications that post-modernity may have for the expansion of organizational theory, and more specifically for our understanding of organizations in contexts other than those of the United States and Western European and Far-Eastern industrial nations. It includes an exercise in the application of the notion of the post-modern in organizations to contexts other than industrialized societies. The book draws on the outcome of the exercise; it suggests some future key issues for inquiry, and a justification for a postmodern approach to the study of organizations in Third World contexts. It presents the following cursory exercise, grounded on my experience with health care in Guatemala, in order to get a sense of the potential results of analyzing organizations outside the context of industrial modernity with the aid of a perspective of postmodern intent.
