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When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh dist...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory. In bringing together a collection of key essays by Haridimos Tsoukas, this volume explores fundamental concepts, such as organizational routine, that have gained currency in the field, as well as revisiting traditional concepts such as change, strategy, and organization. It discusses organizational knowledge, judgment, and reflection-in-action, and, at the meta-theoretical level, suggests complex forms of theorizing that do justice to the complexity of organizations.0The conceptual attention throughout is on process and practice, underlain by performative phenomenology and an emphasis on agents' lived experience. This provides us with the language to appreciate the dynamic character of organizational behaviour, the embeddedness of action, and the complexity of organizational life. The theoretical claims presented in this volume have important implications for practice, insofar as they help retrain our attention; from seeing structures and individuals, we can now appreciate processes, experiences, and practices. A phenomenological attitude makes organization theory more open, more creative, and more reflexive, and this book will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of organization studies. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780198794547 0198794541 |
| Index Number: | HD58 |
| CLC: | C936-02 |
| Call Number: | C936-02/T882 |
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Introduction: What is philosophical organization theory and why does it matter? -- Organization and strategy -- Organization as Chaosmos: Insights from Cornelius Castoriadis -- Understanding the (Re)creation of routines from within: A symbolic interactionist perspective -- Complex thought, simple talk: An ecological approach to language-based change in organizations -- Making strategy: Meta-theoretical insights from Heideggerian phenomenology -- Strategic decision maing and knowledge: A Heideggerian approach -- Knowledge and reflective judgment -- A dialogical approach to the creation of new knowledge in organizations -- What is reflection-in-action? A phenomenological account -- In search of Phronesis: Leadership and the art of judgment -- Performing Phronesis: On the way to engaged judgment -- The "metaphor" metaphor: Education practitioners for reflective judgment -- Theorizing -- Theory as therapy: Wittgensteinian reminders for reflective theorizing in organization and management theory -- Grasping the logic of practice: Theorizing through practical rationality -- Practice theory: What it is, its philosophical base, and what it offers organization studies -- Craving for generality and small-N studies: A Wittgensteinian approach towards the epistemology of the particular in organization and management theory -- The power of the particular: Towards an organization science of singularities -- Don't simplify, complexity: From disjunctive to conjunctive theorizing in organization and management studies. |