Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی
Authors
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Assistant Professor, Department of management, Faculty of humanities, ToloueMehr University, Qom, Iran.
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Faculty of Research, University of Tehran
10.30471/mssh.2025.10917.2636
Abstract
The intellectual transformations arising from the transition from postmodernism to the so-called "post-postmodern" condition have created a favorable context for rethinking the philosophical foundations of organizational and management theories. Aiming to analyze the ontology and epistemology of organizational theories within this new context, this article first examines the alternative nomenclatures proposed for the post-postmodern era, including hypermodernity, performatism, digimodernism, metamodernism, critical modernism, cosmodernism, and altermodernity.
Subsequently, through a critical analysis, the article explores alternative philosophical approaches developed in response to the limitations of postmodernism, such as Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism, Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action, Anthony Giddens’s structuration theory, Pierre Bourdieu’s genetic structuralism, Richard Rorty’s late pragmatism, and Brian Fay’s philosophical interactionism.
These approaches seek to overcome traditional epistemological dualisms and, by integrating structural and agentic factors, enable the development of reflective, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural dialogical theorizing in the field of organization and management.
Ultimately, the article argues that the post-postmodern condition — by reviving concepts such as rationality, agency, the dialectic of structure and action, and by opening new avenues for philosophical reflection on science, organization, and culture — offers significant capacities for advancing the theoretical and methodological foundations of organizational sciences.
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