Book Review

摘要

What if one approaches organization theory with humankind as its main concern? And what if management were to be redefined to become a tool for a true politics of sustainability? Such are the working hypotheses of Monika Kostera in her book Organizations and Archetypes. Kostera offers an account of contemporary organization theory that she intends to become an academic tool for effecting radical change in organizations and management. The book begins with a manifesto that calls for the areas of management and organization to develop a mode of thinking inspired by the humanities. It continues with an extended presentation of organization theory structured according to the Jungian notion of archetypes. And it ends with a methodological chapter featuring the key tenets of ethnographic and narrative methodologies. What, why, how: this structure of the book is conventional even if the content is not.