The process of transition in Eastern European countries is one in which ideas of the past and present, both local and Western, meet and conflict. Presenting a wealth of new ethnographic and interview-based research, Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe argues that the reform process in...

1. Paradigm plurality and its prospects -- 2. Organizational knowledge : production and consumption -- 3. Escaping the confines of organization theory / with Ian Atkin -- 4. Actor-networks and sociological symmetry / with Christine McLean -- 5. Fluidity and identity / with Beverly Metcalfe -- 6....

This chapter presents an affirmative and emancipatory postmodernism characterized by epistemological and methodological pluralism. Many narratives are to be preferred to just one, many styles of research are available and useful, and local, limited and fragmented research initiatives have...