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| Author: | Jackson, N. Carter, P. |
| Title: | In defence of paradigm incommensurability. |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
1991 : VOL. 12:1, p. 109-127 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGMS ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A rigorous defence of paradigm incommensurability - as conceptualized by Burrell and Morgan - is presented. The arguments were conceived as a necessary defence against scientistic authoritarianism. Two recent attacks on paradigm incommensurability are examined which, although emerging from different intellectual tradition, are both seen to imply the restoration of the authority of scientism characteristic of the postmodernism of reaction. Both critiques base their attack on the work of Kuhn but this basis is rejected in the absence of isomorphism between the model of Kuhn and that of Burrel and Morgan. Finally, the relevance of paradigm incommensurability is considered in the context of non-reactive postmodernism. |
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