The production of managerial knowledge and organizational theory : new aproaches to writing, producing and consuming theory

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Zilber, Tammar B.
• Amis, John M.
• Mair, Johanna

Publisher

Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781787691834

Series

Research in the sociology of organizations Vol. 59

Subject(s)

• INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
• MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY--RESEARCH

Notes

• Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019
• Includes index

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Abstract

As organizational scholars, we are accustomed to using theoretical lenses to understand organizational practices and outcomes. That is, we conceptualize what people do, feel and think in their everyday organizational interactions through the use of theoretical language and models to uncover individual and/or social antecedents and outcomes. We tend to ignore, however, how our own day-to-day work as scholars - doing research - is subjected to the same pressures, affected by similar factors, and should be accounted for through similar modes of analyses. We treat our studies and theories as solid anchor points and as objective truths rather than as constructions embedded within individual, organizational, field and societal contexts. This volume is a must read for all researchers interested in understanding our own craft. Building on established traditions in the sociology of knowledge, we direct a reflective and critical gaze towards the structures, practices and meaning systems that ground and shape how we produce and consume managerial knowledge and organization theory. The volume includes both empirically-based papers and reflective essays that explore theoretical concepts and analytical reasoning to explain, critique and advance the ways in which we write about, produce, and consume theory.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiii, 281 p.)

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prelims
Introduction Dismantling the Master’s House Using the Master’s Tools: On the Sociology of Organizational Knowledge
Chapter 1 The Problem of De-contextualization in Organization and Management Research
Chapter 2 Pragmatism in Organizations: Ambivalence and Limits
Chapter 3 Reframing Rigor as Reasoning: Challenging Technocratic Conceptions of Rigor in Management Research
Chapter 4 Knowledge Production and Consumption in the Digital Era: The Emergence of Altmetrics and Open Access Publishing in Management Studies
Chapter 5 Peer Review and the Production of Scholarly Knowledge: Automated Textual Analysis of Manuscripts Revised for Publication in Administrative Science Quarterly
Chapter 6 The (Re?)Emergence of New Ideas in the Field of Organizational Studies
Chapter 7 A Discourse Perspective on Creating Organizational Knowledge: The Case of Strategizing
Chapter 8 When Fieldwork Hurts: On the Lived Experience of Conducting Research in Unsettling Contexts
Chapter 9 Visual Artefacts as Tools for Analysis and Theorizing
Chapter 10 Presenting Findings from Qualitative Research: One Size Does Not Fit All!
Chapter 11 For Social Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory
Chapter 12 ‘Through the Looking Glass’: on Phantasmal Tales, Distortions and Reflexivity in Organizational Scholarship
Chapter 13 When Research and Personal Lifeworlds Collide
Index

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