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100			_aGergen, Kenneth J.
245			_aOrganization science as social construction: postmodern potentials
260			_c2004
300			_ap.228-49.
362			_aJun
520			_aWe critically examine three major assumptions of modernist organization science: rational agency, empirical knowledge, and language as representation. With these assumptions problematized, we are positioned for postmodern turn in the discipline. From a postmodern standpoint, we are moved to replace rational agency with communal rationality, empirical knowledge with social construction, and language as representation with language as action. Outcomes for an organization science place special emphasis on reconstructing and enriching the aims and methods of research and on critical reflection, generative theorizing, and scholarly action within organizations. -Reproduced.
650			_aOrganizations
700			_aThatchenkery, Tojo Joseph
773			_aJournal of Applied Behavioral Science
909			_a60822
999			_c60822 _d60822