00841pab a2200157 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Townley, Barbara Managing with modernity 2002 p.549-73. Nov This 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. Management Organisation 54643 54643 54643 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 9, Issue no: 4 AR55088 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR