The Politics of Organizational Analysis
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization Studies
- Vol. 14 (1) , 93-124
- https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069301400107
Abstract
This paper introduces the realist concept of science to defend and advance the critique of positivist organization theory in the face of Donaldson's counter- critique, and to rescue Foucault from the obscurity of postmodernist interpret ations, thereby establishing his significance as a guide to organizational ethno graphy.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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