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100			_aTownley, Barbara
245			_aManaging with modernity
260			_c2002
300			_ap.549-73.
362			_aNov
520			_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.
650			_aManagement
773			_aOrganisation
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