This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium. --David J. Farmer, State University of New York Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it stands today. The text gives an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history and assembles in one volume a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy--including feminist, cultural, and environmental philosophies. The contributors address the future of postmodern advancement in management and organization theory and method, establishing an agenda for future research. This thought-provoking book will be useful to scholars, researchers and upper-level students in organization theory, organization behavior and change, management, and industrial psychology.
Robert P. Gephart Jr. is a professor of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta's School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1979. Dr. Gephart has published in several important journals including the
Administrative Science Quarterly, the
Academy of Management Journal,
Journal of Management,
Organization Studies,
Organizational Research Methods, and
Qualitative Sociology. He is also the author of
Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research (SAGE, 1988) and a coeditor of
Postmodern Management and Organization Theory (SAGE, 1996). Dr. Gephart served as an associate editor of
Organizational Research Methods and serves on the editorial boards of the
Academy of Management Journal and the
Academy of Management Review. He received the 2015 SAGE Distinguished Career Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. His current research interests include ethnostatistics, risk sensemaking, and organizational change management.