Comparison of Organizational Theory in the Axis of the "Pandemonium" Metaphor in Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Approaches

Ahmet Ilhan ()
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Ahmet Ilhan: Bayburt University, Turkey

Eurasian Journal of Business and Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 4, 292-304

Abstract: The development and position of the field of organizational theory differ at certain levels depending on the perspectives emerging in different periods. It is thought that analyzing organizational theory in the context of different perspectives adds diversity to organizational research within the development line. In addition, the linguistic codes used in different periods to understand today's organizations and the discourses developed in this context are seen as valid features in understanding organizational structures and functioning. This study examines the organizations established based on the reflections of modern, symbolic and postmodern approaches in organizational theory in the pandemonium axis related to human life and its organization at the organizational level, and the issues that organizational theory focuses on. In this direction, the main purpose of the study is to analyze the fundamental philosophical differences that constitute modern, symbolic and postmodern approaches and their effects on organizations and organizational theory in the context of issues that epistemological, ontological, metaphor, organizational theory focuses on, nature of information and pandemonium metaphor. Within the scope of the study, as a result of the analysis of organization theory with the pandemonium metaphor as a field of study in social sciences, it was concluded that organizations had linear, symbolic in the modern period and nonlinear structures in the postmodern period with fundamental philosophical differences.

Keywords: Pandemonium; Modern Perspective; Symbolic Perspective; Postmodern Perspective; Organizational Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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