Reason's Neglect

B. Townley

Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the rationalization of working and administrative processes, or the rationality studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. Reason s Neglect does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often been neglected. Secondly, it deploys Foucault s wo