00790pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002100040245002800061260000900089300001400098362000800112520050400120650001500624773001700639180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aTownley, Barbara  aManaging with modernity  c2002  ap.549-73.  aNov  aThis article critiques an increasingly abstract management that is being advocated in organizations.  it locates the foundations of an abstract management in what Foucault and others have identified as the epistemic foundations of modernity.  Using the example of a strategic performance management system it shows how these systems have such epistemic assumptions as their foundations.  The article concludes by considering the role of practical reason in guiding management practice. - Reproduced.  aManagement  aOrganisation