Constructing opportunities for contribution: Structuring intertextual coherence and ''problematizing'' in organizational studies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Locke, K; GoldenBiddle, K
• 署名单位: University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256926
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 1023-1062
• 关键词: GROUNDED THEORY; science

摘要

Examining a sample of journal articles, we develop a grounded theory of contribution that shows how organization studies theorists textually construct opportunities for making contributions to the field. The analyses reveal two major processes and the associated rhetorical practices that texts invoke in establishing opportunities for contribution. The study's findings point to the richness of contribution by illuminating how uniqueness claims are textually produced and legitimated in the context of science. The construction of contribution in organization studies is more complicated than has been assumed.