60th Anniversary Essay: Constrained Comprehending: The Experience of Organizational Inquiry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weick, Karl E.
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.1177/0001839216633453
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 333-346
• 关键词: management; KNOWLEDGE

摘要

Jerry Davis's (2015) question What is organizational research for? is ill-served by the narrow answer settled science. Constraints of comprehension may give the illusion that organizational research represents settled science. But the experience of inquiring actually comprises a greater variety of actions that increase the meaning of present research experience and the contributions it makes. I discuss acts of conjecture, differentiation, attachment, affirmation, complication, discernment, interruption, and representation to illustrate that meaningful contributions are generated by actions associated with connecting perceptions to concepts. ASQ's 60th anniversary is an opportune time to make these interim contributions more explicit.