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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Series in Organization and Management |
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Series in organization and management.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Rethinking the Knowledge Controversy in Organization Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1: Rethinking Organization Studies; 1. Generative Uncertainty; Definition of Generative Uncertainty; What We Don't Know; Conclusion; 2. Ramifications of Generative Uncertainty for Organization Studies; Perception; Representation; The Self; Other Minds; Agency (Free Will); Knowledge; Rethinking Communication in the Context of Generative Uncertainty; Conclusion; Section 2: Historical Factors |
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3. In the Shadow of Certainty: The Interplay of Certainty and Uncertainty in the WestLong History in Western Thought of the Idea That Humans Cannot Achieve Certainty About Knowledge; Certainty in the Evolution of Christianity; Uncertainty and the Origins of Modern Science; Treatment of Uncertainty from the Origins of Modern Science to the Present; Increased Attention to Uncertainty in the 20th Century; Conclusion; 4. Neo-Institutional View of Scientism and the Organization Studies Knowledge Controversy; Meaning of Scientism and Its Role in Organization Studies |
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Neo-Institutional Organization TheoryNeo-Institutional Theory and Scientism in Anglo-North American Social Science; Scientism--The Curse That Keeps on Giving; Conclusion; 5. Origins of the Knowledge Controversy in the History of Organization Studies; Historical Overview of Organization Studies; Conclusion; 6. Key Themes in the Debate About Orthodox Science in the Study of Organizations; Positivism Versus Antipositivism; Role of Language in Organization Studies; Modernism Versus Postmodernism |
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Evidence of Radical Change in Study of Organizations in Special Issues of the Academy of Management ReviewConclusion; 7. Organization Scholars' Responses to the Breakdown of Orthodoxy; Attacks on Scientism in the Study of Organizations; Growing Attention to the Influence of Values inOrganization Studies; Changes in Organizations; Changes in Thinking About Uncertainty; Conclusion; Section 3: Alternatives; 8. Alternative Approaches for the KnowledgeControversy; Positivism; Realism; Pragmatism; Naturalism; Normative Naturalist Approach to Methodology and Theory; Postmodernism |
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Flyvbjerg--Phronesis"Pfefferism"; Zald--Becoming Better Humanists; Conclusion; Section 4: Letting Go; 9. Letting Go of Misguided Attempts to EmulatePhysics; Question 1: Do Physicists Espouse Commonsense Realism?; Question 2: What Do Physicists Actually Do?; Conclusion; 10. Letting Go of Agonism; Agonism in Western Intellectual Discourse; Conclusion; 11. Toward Postagonistic Communication: Conversation in Organization Studies; The Paradigm Incommensurability Thesis; Paradigm Incommensurability and the Pro-Dialogue Position; Generative Uncertainty Aiding Communication in Organization Studies |
| Summary |
Recently the field of organization studies has been plagued by intense, disruptive controversy about what counts as knowledge. This book, written by the major researchers and voices in the field of organization studies, attempts to respond to this controversy by offering the topic of "generative uncertainty" as the primary vehicle for rethinking about this issue |
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Improving Conversation in Organization Studies Through SOAR |
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Print version record |
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Organizational learning.
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Knowledge management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Negotiating.
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Knowledge management
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Organizational learning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Connell, Ann F
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| ISBN |
9780203833391 |
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0203833392 |
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