Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism The Intellectual Conflict at the Hea
This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based
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Work, Wealth, & Postmodernism THE INTELLECTUAL CONFLICT AT THE HEART OF BUSINESS ENDEAVOUR
Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism
Bradley Bowden
Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour
Bradley Bowden Griffith University Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
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Preface
Like many families in both the Old World and New, mine suffered grievously from the process of modernisation and industrialisation that commenced in the late eighteenth century. My maternal ancestors immigrated from Lough Swilly in County Donegal in the 1850s, driven to the seas by famine and English bailiffs. Although their point of departure was a stone’s throw from Rathmullan, where the Flight of the Earls in 1607 signified the end for Celtic Ireland, they were no earls. Arriving in Australia they could neither speak nor write the English language, the lingua franca of the modernising world. My paternal grandfather, Ernest (Ernie) Bowden, was raised in a nineteenth-century Derbyshire mill-town, being born at 1 Mill Street, Glossop to the son—as one would suspect from the salubrious address—of a mill-hand. Arriving in Australia he married into a family of German immigrant wheat farmers; a family whose ancestors were driven from southern Germany by poverty and war. Unlike my maternal ancestors, who gradually prosp
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