More fragmentation? Unfinished business in linking the social sciences and the humanities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zaid, MN
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 251-261
• 关键词: CAUSAL

摘要

Although administrative science (organizational studies) has made much progress since the founding of ASQ, it continues to be a fragmented field of study. This essay explores one source of the continuing and possibly increasing fragmentation of administrative science-the extensive but partial rapprochement with the humanities that has occurred in recent decades. I argue that the opening to the humanities is useful because it helps us understand processes and phenomena that are not well explored in more traditional modes, but the opening is still incomplete. It has taken place most fully in research using deconstructive, rhetorical, and narrative analysis growing out of literary theory, and there has been some engagement with history and historical analysis. The connection to the traditional topics of philosophy have been most disjointed. An agenda for further research is suggested.