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Author: | Tsoukas, H. |
Title: | Refining common sense: types of knowledge in management studies |
Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
1994 : NOV, VOL. 31:6, p. 761-780 |
Index terms: | MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Drawing on Peppers's World Hypothese the author describes four different approaches to obtaining formal knowledge in management studies. These approaches are: formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism. All of them are valid ways of refining common sense that resist synthesis. Applying Pepper's framework in as extremely diverse a field as management studies the author shows the different assumptions and knowledge claims made by different types of theorists in management. |
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