Affiliation:
1. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Boulevard at W. 80th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
Abstract
All organizations are learning organizations. Some are learning sites for a more exploitive capitalist pedagogy. The purpose of this paper is to explore three historical discourses, pre-modernism, modernism and postmodernism, to reveal the pedagogy and resistances in learning organizations. Its contribution is to theorize organizations as a struggle of fragmented, polyvocal (having multiple voices), polysemous (having multiple meanings) and polydiscursive learning struggles. In organizational learning and in the modern-versus-postmodern debate, pre-modern management issues get less theoretical attention than they deserve. To this day, universities, judiciaries and corporate boardrooms sustain many pre-modern traditions of social welfare, apprenticeship and collective governance. Organizations are also sites for the struggle of modernist and postmodernist organizational learning. Tamara, a play with wandering and fragmented audiences chasing wandering storytellers, is presented as a multi-discursive metaphor to explain this theory of a distributed, multifaceted network of struggling organizational learning pedagogies.
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,General Decision Sciences
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