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作者：Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W.
作者单位：University of Delaware; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
摘要：As organizational environments become more global, dynamic, and competitive, contradictory demands intensify. To understand and explain such tensions, academics and practitioners are increasingly adopting a paradox lens. We review the paradox literature, categorizing types and highlighting fundamental debates. We then present a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing, which depicts how cyclical responses to paradoxical tensions enable sustainability-peak performance in the present that enables...
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作者：Walsh, James P.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Boxenbaum, Eva; Rouleau, Linda
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Universite PSL; MINES ParisTech; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：We argue that three epistemic scripts of knowledge production-evolution, differentiation, and bricolage-underpin the production-that is, the conception and the presentation-of new organizational theories. Bricolage of concepts, empirical material, and metaphors enables the conception of new theories, whereas evolution and differentiation, carrying higher academic legitimacy, predominate in theory presentation. We develop an integrative model and provide an illustration from organizational inst...
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作者：Dutton, Jane; Roberts, Laura Morgan; Bednar, Jeffrey
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Ohio; Antioch University Midwest
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作者：Kilduff, Martin; Mehra, Ajay; Dunn, Mary B.
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Kentucky; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We examine rationalized logics developed within discourses of the philosophy of science for implications for the organization of new knowledge. These logics, derived from a range of philosophies (structural realism, instrumentalism, problem solving, foundationalism, critical realism) offer alternative vocabularies of motive, frameworks for reasoning, and guidelines for practice. We discuss the kinds of knowledge produced, the indicators of progress, the characteristic methods, exemplar organiz...
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作者：Shepherd, Dean A.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Building on coherence theory and a pragmatist tradition, we offer an inductive model of top-down theorizing that can be a source of new theories of organization. We explain how an initial hypothesis is refined to enhance its potential contribution (consistent with abduction). But, unlike abduction, we explain how inquiry begins-how research tensions are carved out of the flux of the vast literature-and how constant comparison facilitates an abductive process.
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作者：Randolph-Seng, Brandon; Norris, J. Ian
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Murray State University
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作者：King, Adelaide W.; Lepak, David
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作者：Oswick, Cliff; Fleming, Peter; Hanlon, Gerard
作者单位：University of London
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, disan...
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作者：Sandberg, Joergen; Tsoukas, Haridimos
作者单位：University of Queensland; University of Cyprus; University of Warwick
摘要：There is an increasing concern that management theories are not relevant to practice. In this article we contend that the overall problem is that most management theories are unable to capture the logic of practice because they are developed within the framework of scientific rationality. We elaborate practical rationality as an alternative framework and show how it enables development of theories that grasp the logic of practice and, thus, are more relevant to management practice.
