the intellectual conflict at the heart of business endeavour /
Bradley Bowden.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Roots and Nature of Modernity; The Postmodernist Assault on Rationality; In Defence of Reason; Part I; Chapter 2: Intellectual Heritage: Debates at the Roots of Modernity and Postmodernism; Introduction; Intellectual Origins; Enlightened Conflicts of Understanding; Enlightened Conflicts of Purpose; Hegel and Nietzsche: Marxist and Postmodernist Precursors; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Economics and Modernity; Introduction; The Creation of Value: Classical Economics
ConclusionPart III: Final Reflections; Index
Hayden White: Narration as FantasyPostmodernism as a Condition; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Postmodernism in Business Studies; Introduction; The Ascent of Postmodernism in Management and Organisational Studies: Towards an "Historic Turn"?; Rhetoric, Forgetting, and ANTi-History; Modernity and Postmodernism in Accounting; Conclusion; Part II: Summary; Part III; Chapter 8: Work, Wealth, and the Sociology of Postmodernism; Introduction; Wealth; Economic Transformation and Work in Advanced Economies; The Sociology of Postmodernism; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Reflections; Introduction; Knowledge; Covenants
The Flaws of Modernity: Marxist and Keynesian CritiquesMarxism; Neo-Marxism; Keynesianism and Its Foes; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Legitimacy of Modern Management; Introduction; Management Foundations; The Crisis of HRM and Industrial Relations; Management and Markets; Conclusion; Part I: Summary; Part II; Chapter 5: Structuralism and Postmodernism; Introduction; Structuralism in Language; Structuralism in History and Anthropology; Structuralism in Politics; Conclusion; Chapter 6: The Foundations of Postmodernism; Introduction; Derrida and Deconstructionism; Foucault: Exclusion and Discourse