ABSTRACT
Neo-modern political economy, post-modern theory and the structuration approach are critical of organisation theory and strategic analysis. To explain their criticisms it is analytically convenient to view organisation theory and related areas of strategy as a clusters of research programmes held together by the discourse of specific communities of theorists with overlapping interests. Some clusters of research programmes will be rising to future eminence while other clusters may be degenerating. The notions of ascending and degenerating should not be taken to imply a teleology of progress and perception of ups and downs is relative to the observer. Also, there are likely to be switches and surprises. The key journals and their editorial boards provide an important mechanism giving the sense of a brand to organisation theory.
