Taking Science out of Organization Science: How Would Postmodernism Reconstruct the Analysis of Organizations?

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 709-731

  Weiss, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconstruction; Organization Science; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346739057     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.6.709.12534     Document Type: Article

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