| Description |
1 online resource (475 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Advances in organization studies ; vol. 29 |
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Advances in organization studies ; v. 29.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Colophon; Advances in Organization Studies ; Dedication; Table of Contents; Our Thanks; Notes on the Contributors; Foreword; References ; Introduction; Trends in Management Research ; Trends in Project Management Research ; The Sections of the Book ; Section 1: Philosophical Underpinnings of OPM Research; Section 2: Creative and Innovative Contemporary Approaches ; Section 3: Learning Across Disciplines ; Section 4: Upcoming Approaches in OPM Research ; References ; %"Section 1"; Philosophical Underpinnings of OPM Research; %"Chapter 1." |
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Paradigms and Perspectives in Organizational Project Management Research: Implications for Knowledge-CreationAbstract ; Introduction: Academic Research and the Production of Knowledge ; Research and Knowledge-Creation in Academic Inquiry ; The Purpose of Research ; The Context and History of Western Knowledge-Creation ; Contrasting World-Views: The Intellectual Roots of Western Thought ; Two Ontologies ; Epistemological Implications of Being and Becoming for Organizational Research ; An Ontology of Being and an Epistemology of Representationalism |
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An Ontology of Becoming and an Epistemology of Social Constructionism Conclusion ; References ; %"Chapter 2"; "A" Discourse on the Non-method; Abstract ; A Call for Perestroika ; Modes of Action (Practice) and Modes of Knowledge (Theory) ; Praxis vs. Practice Turn ; Beyond the Gap Practice-Theory: And then Comes the "PraXitioner"! ; Back to the Future ; A Difference that Makes a Difference ; Debate and Deliberations ; Project Management-as-Praxis ; Discussion of Question 2: Which Intellectual Virtues is the Knowledge Generated from and What is the Impact for Theory and Practice? |
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Mediating Theory-Practice: The Role of a Praxeological Style of Reasoning and Mode of Inquiry Discussion of Question 3: Are the Actions of the Practitioners 'Prudent'? ; Prudence: Standards or Verstehen? ; Standard ; Verstehen ; Teleological Understanding and 'Good' ; Prudence ; Praxeological Inquiry: A Praxeological Discourse about Praxeology! ; Praxeological Inquiry and the Complexity Discourse ; Serendipity, Sagacity ... and Methodology ; Non (or Post) Paradigmatic ; Empiricism ; Narrative, History and Story ; Pluralism and Regularities ; Design ; Methodological Individualism |
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Logics of Inquiry Improvisation & Bricolage ; Deliberation and Arbitrage ; Methodological Guidelines ; Limitations ; To Not Conclude ; A Discourse on the Non-method ; References ; %"Chapter 3"; Thinking in Slow Motion about Project Management; Abstract ; Introduction ; Everything we Know is Wrong, or is It? ; Our Thinking is Still Pretty Old ; In the Grip of Platonic Thinking ; The Confidence of Aristotelian Thinking ; Things Will Never be the Same Again ; An Introduction to Dr Joh?n Locke ; Then Came David Hume ; And So to Kant ; Some Concluding Remarks ; References ; %"Chapter 4." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Management -- Research.
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Management -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Drouin, Nathalie
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Müller, Ralf
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Sankaran, Shankar
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| ISBN |
9788763002493 |
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8763002493 |
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9788763002882 |
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8763002884 |
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