FROM BORROWING TO BLENDING: RETHINKING THE PROCESSES OF ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY BUILDING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Oswick, Cliff; Fleming, Peter; Hanlon, Gerard
• 署名单位: University of London
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2011.59330932
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 318-337
• 关键词: METAPHOR; MODERNISM; DYNAMICS

摘要

Why are there not more original and radical theories in organization theory? To answer this question, we consider an overreliance on theory borrowing from other disciplines. We identify a dominant foreign to domestic to domesticated pattern of organization and management theory building and propose that the prevalent process of one-way borrowing from outside the discipline should be counterbalanced by a two-way analogical process of conceptual blending, which involves dissonant thinking, disanalogy, and counterfactual reasoning.