OPERATIONALIZING THE POSTMODERNITY CONSTRUCT FOR EFFICIENT ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE MANAGEMENT

As postmodernity is increasingly discussed in the management disciplin es, there is growing acceptance that the postmodernity debates challen ge the adequacy of traditional research and teaching practices. Argues that, to date, this has been interpreted primarily as a need for new theoretical and/or pedagogical content. Believes the issue is more fun damental. Contrasting modernist and postmodernist theories of post-ind ustrialism, argues that postmodern transformations of work and society throw the very forms, even the existence of organizational theorizing ; academic business education, and ''management'' as it is currently u nderstood into question. While it is directed at those who have some b ackground with these debates, attempts to provide background and citat ions sufficient to point the new reader towards other commentary on th ese issues.