ABSTRACT
In this final chapter I shall review the two themes and direct attention to the interesting problems. Figure 15.1 summarises the examination of the five perspectives in the preceding chapters to establish that organisations and contexts should be analysed within a neo-modern political economy (NMPE) perspective. NMPE shares the critique of the positivist and modern architecture of organisation theory and strategy with the major developments through post-modernism, social construction of reality and the realist turn. Those three analytic positions have moved beyond critique into the establishment of their own distinctive positions. My concern has been to contribute to a synthesis by showing that NMPE offers a major theoretical position complete with robust implications for policy and practice.
