Redirecting critique in postmodern organization studies : The perspective of foucault

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1059-1075
Journal / PublicationOrganization Studies
Volume21
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2000

Abstract

Foucault's concepts of freedom and resistance are examined to determine how they may feed into theorizing the Kantian 'question of the present' for postmodern organizational analysis. This paper takes a measure of how reflexivity and creative selfrepresentation materialize change in the ways critique is advanced in organization studies.

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  • Critical reflection, Foucault, Genealogy, Organization studies, Postmodernism