INTEGRATING MODERNIST AND POSTMODERNIST PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONS: A COMPLEXITY SCIENCE BRIDGE
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Boisot, Max; McKelvey, Bill
署名单位：
Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
刊物名称：
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0363-7425
DOI：
10.5465/AMR.2010.51142028
发表日期：
2010
页码：
415-433
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摘要：
Competition between modernism and postmodernism has not been fruitful, and management researchers are divided in their preference, thereby undermining the legitimacy of truth claims in the field as a whole. Drawing on Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, on complexity science, and in particular on power-law-distributed phenomena, we show how the order-seeking regime of the modernists and the richness-seeking regime of the postmodernists draw on different ontological assumptions that can be integrated within a single overarching framework.