ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Rigour, Ivory Tower, Instrumental And Value-Rational Action
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Wikipedia and wikmedia foundation: the future of organization and postmodern analysis, reflection on the value of organization theory. Modernist approaches conceptualize organizations as bounded definable identities: Clearly definable what"s outside and what"s inside an organization. Ma assume that the organizational structure, i. e. departments, tasks, positions, job specializations, etc. display what is actually going on in organizations. Organizations as rational instruments that are set up to achieve certain goals. Formal structures are means to ensure goal-directed behavior. "doubts" that there are perceivable, observable and definable structures, that can be described, classified, or modeled"". Pe challenges the notion of differentiation as a meaningful way to understand organizations. Pe points out the limits of rationality-based assumption in respect with. Most approaches in jaffee (2001) are modernist approaches. Martin parker (1992) distinguished between 2 strands in postmodern writing: Doubts that reality can simply be observed, described, and modeled. Instead it regards reality, and thus organizations, as subjective constructions.
