In order to assure multiple perspectives are represented, we have invited contributions from several individuals.

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR- A position paper by David Boje will to kick off the Issue: Postmodern Organization Science: Narrative Ethics, Tamara and the Binary Machine: A Paper Soundly Rejected by Organization Science.
(Boje_response_to_Weiss.html)

SECOND CONTRIBUTOR- Richard Weiss has been invited as an anti-postmodernist to respond to articles in this issue. He wrote the anti-postmodern piece that will appear (perhaps) in the November/December issue of Organization Science. (9/13/00)

THIRD CONTRIBUTOR - Alfonso Montuori montuori@ciis.edu "I found your Org. Science debate with Weiss (or the lack of it), fascinating. I think the whole notion of pomophobia is extremely important, and applaud you for bringing it up. I believe there are cultural, political, and psychological layers (among others) to this whole issue which could keep us busy for a while. I intend to get into it, and would like to submit something for the Pomophobia issue. I'd like to approach the issue of pomophobia from a number of different perspectives, but focusing mainly on the issue of Cartesian Anxiety, as per Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism." (9/10/00).

FOURTH CONTRIBUTOR- Contribution has been requested from current and former editor of Organization Science, as well as recently departed editorial board members Peter Frost, Paul Adler, Carol Stevens, and Bart Victor . It appeared that former editor, Arie Y. Lewin did a great deal to reach out to a diversity of viewpoints allowing both critical and postmodern (deconstructive) articles to be reviewed and published. And, the current editor, Kaye Bird Schoonhoven of Organization Science and an associate editor publicly stated "their journal is open to critical theory and postmodern submissions" ( in two meet the editor forums at the August, 2000 Academy of Management Meetings, one of which was a Critical Theory pre-conference). Is it a coincidence that notable critical scholars have recently left the board? Further, consider my story of my own articles, which causes me to further doubt their espoused support of critical postmodern theory (See full story in attachment). Could this be just the tip of the iceberg of resistance of top tier journals to critical postmodern work? This is the theme of issue # 3.

FIFTH CONTRIBUTOR- Review essay by Adrian Carr -- Intellectual IMPOSTURE?: Sokal & Bricmont ‘s attack on French postmodernists. Carr is Principal Research Fellow, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, School of Social, Community & Organisational Studies. Carr will review Sokal, Alan & Bricmont, Jean (1999).Intellectual IMPOSTURES: Postmodern philosophers’ abuse of science (2nd ed.). London: Profile Books. 276 pp. £6.99 ($22.95, Australian) paperback.

For More Information on this Special Issue Contact:

David Boje
E-mail: dboje@nmsu.edu

See Position Paper to Kick off the Issue at:
http://web.nmsu.edu/~dboje/TDdeprogramming.html