Recent decades have witnessed a discursive expansion of calls for abstract and charismatic
management beyond the systematic administration of concrete settings—hyper …

It is increasingly common for anyone with formal, hierarchical status at work to be called a
'leader'. Though widespread, this relatively recent change in day-to-day discourse is largely …

Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the expansion of formal
organization in the contemporary era-in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and …

The post-modernist and post-bureaucratic turn in Organization Studies has contributed to
shape a landscape that same seminal thinkers would probably not recognize …

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the
long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny. The elimination of …

In a paper written for a theory development forum we insisted that the postmodern moment,
in its association with poststructuralist analyses, brought much of value to organization and …

First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was 'The Postmodern'in the History of
Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as …

One of the key criticisms of management scholarship is its Western and particularly Anglo-
American bias. That is, its reliance on theories, concepts and models developed in Anglo …

The philosophical underpinnings of the rationalist and logical empiricist traditions can be
extended as far back as Plato (Stacey et al., 2000: 195; Winograd & Flores, 1987: 14). These …

One of the dominant features of the age of globalization is the rampant expansion of
organization. In particular, formal, standardized, rationalized, and empowered forms of …