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Organizational Forming In Amodern Times: Reinserting The Dynamic Into The Organizational, Paul Donnelly
Organizational Forming In Amodern Times: Reinserting The Dynamic Into The Organizational, Paul Donnelly
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While there is an obvious concern that “new organizational forms” are appearing, and despite the topic receiving increased attention, scholars, as yet, have been unable to theorize, grasp or account for these new forms adequately. In continuing to look for the ‘new’ with ‘old’ lenses, we are seeing neither real departure from Weberian conceptualizations other than oppositional approaches still in search of an essential entity, nor much consideration given to the possibility that the paradigmatic approach to form is also part of the problem. In light of this, I posit that thinking within a modernist epistemological framework has served to …