CRITICALLY CONSTITUTING ORGANIZATION
Advances in Organization Studies Advances in Organization Studies includes cutting-edge work in comparative management and intercultural comparison, studies of organizational culture, communication, and aesthetics, as well as in the area of interorganizational collaboration — strategic alliances, joint ventures, networks and collaborations of all kinds, where comparative, intercultural, and communicative issues have an especial salience. Purely theoretical as well as empirically based studies are included.
General Editors Stewart Clegg School of Management University of Technology Sydney Quay Street, Haymarket P.O.Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia
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Volume 5 Andrew Chan Critically Constituting Organization
Critically Constituting Organization
ANDREW CHAN City University of Hong Kong
With a foreword by Stewart R. Clegg
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chan, Andrew. Critically constituting organization / Andrew Chan. p. cm. -- (Advances in organization studies, ISSN 1566-1075 ; 5) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Organization. I. Title. II. Series. HD31.C456 2000 302.3’5--dc21 ISBN 90 272 3302 0 (Eur.) / 1 55619 995 3 (US)
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Dedicated with love to Jackie, Angus, and En-hao
Contents Foreword by Stewart R. Clegg Introduction PART I. HISTORY Chapter 1 The Conditions of Organization Studies Legacy and Intellectual Development Social Institutional Context
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Chapter 2 Culture as Discourse Culture as Discourse Discourse Theory of Organizational Analysis
11 11 17
Chapter 3 Critically Representing Culture Concepts and Representations Etymology of Culture Genesis of Culture
21 21 24 29
PART II. KNOWLEDGE Chapter 4 Postmodernism and Organization Theory Counterpoising Postmodernism and its Critiques Postmodernism and Organization Theory Postmodernism and Social Theory Postmodern Ethos of Foucault
39 41 41 42 47 51
Chapter 5 Towards a Genealogy of Organizational Culture Subjectivity and the Body Genealogy Power Knowledge, Truth and the Intellectual
57 57 59 62 66
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