162 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
(Delbecq 2006). Similarly, postmodern and critical theory extensions of humanistic
organizational theory add notions such as individual emancipation, dealienation,
and self- actualization to managerial purpose (Denhardt 2000; Harmon and Mayer
1986). In short, the logic of the Collaborative Tradition represents “a radical reorder-
ing of … priorities by suggesting that we give primacy to the growth of the indi-
vidual rather than the eciency of the productive process” (Denhardt 1981a, xiii).
In general, these ideas are aligned with contemporary theories that view orga-
nization as culture, or symbolic systems (Bolman and Deal 1997). In fact, the
network organization has been found to rely on an administrative ...