Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour /

• Main Author: Bowden, Bradley (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Management.; Labor-History.; Postmodernism.; Organization.; Planning.; Labor History.; Postmodern Philosophy.

This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based. The author highlights postmodernism's...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction-. Part I Intellectual Herritage
• 2. Intellectual Heritage: Debates at the Roots of Modernity and Postmodernism
• 3. Economics and Modernity
• 4. The Legitimacy of Modern Management
• Part II Introduction: Postmodernism
• 5. Structuralism and Postmodernism
• 6. The Foundations of Postmodernism
• 7. Postmodernism in Business Studies
• Part III Sociology and Reflections
• 8. Work, Wealth and the Sociology of Postmodernism
• 9. Reflections. .