List of figures ................................................ ix
List of contributors ............................................ x
Acknowledgements .............................................. xvi
Introduction: are organizations good to think with? Thinking
things through and thinking through things ...................... 1
STEPHEN LINSTEAD AND ALISON LINSTEAD
PART I Representing organization .............................. 15
2 Back to the roots of the linguistic turn: arguments
against causal social research reconsidered ................. 17
MARJA-LIISA KAKKURI-KNUUTTILA AND EERO VAARA
3 Language and landscape: towards new architectures of
thought ..................................................... 39
ANNE WALLEMACQ AND JEAN-MARIE JACQUES
4 Glissetnent: gaming with(out) the matrix .................... 62
HUGO LETICHE AND JOACHIM MAIER
5 The mythic foundations of organization ...................... 81
IAIN MUNRO
PART II. 'Knowing' organization ................................ 95
6 On the applicability of 'alien' concepts to organisational
analysis: some criteria for inter-domain conceptual
transfer .................................................... 97
LOIZOS HERACLEOUS AND MARTIN R. FELLENZ
7 Construct objectification and de-objectification in
organization theory ........................................ 112
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
8 Reflective knowledge management: some philosophical
considerations ............................................. 136
FRITS SCHIPPER
9 The Odyssey of instrumental rationality: confronting
the Enlightenment's interior other ......................... 157
DONNCHA KAVANAGH, CARMEN KUHLING AND KIERAN KEOHANE
PART III The becoming of organization theory ................. 181
10 Rough magic: screens ....................................... 183
STEVEN CONNOR
11 Suits you, sir: that obscure desire of objects ............. 191
ROBERT GRAFTON SMALL
12 Refocusing: a Bergsonian approach to organization .......... 201
STEPHEN LINSTEAD
13 The becoming of organization and the organization of
becoming ................................................... 218
MARTIN BRIGHAM
Conclusion: thinking on ... the need for philosophy of
management and organization ................................ 247
STEPHEN LINSTEAD AND ALISON LINSTEAD
Author index .................................................. 251
Subject index ................................................. 257
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