Amendments to Organizational Theorizing
- 1 September 1974
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 17 (3) , 487-502
- https://doi.org/10.5465/254652
Abstract
A reexamination of the methods and subjects of theory is proposed. Organizational scholars are urged to avoid big business organizations and to examine, instead, everyday events, places, and questions, micro-organizations, and absurd organizations. In these sites, organizationally relevant phenomena are more visible and available for hypothesis generation than in complex organizations.Keywords
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