Organizational scholars have shown a growing interest in drawing on the philosophy of
Pragmatism to address contemporary problems and theoretical questions. We elucidate …

Many streams of research in organization and management have criticized the mainstream
view of organizations as decision-making and information-processing structures, controlled …

The legacy of classical American Pragmatism–Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, Mead,
Follett and others–in organization theory is significant, albeit that much of its influence has …

In the past, critics have dismissed American Pragmatism as intellectually naïve and
philosophically passé, but in this chapter we argue that it still has much to offer the field of …

The central claim of this paper is that organization studies needs to be fundamentally
reshaped. Such change is needed to provide room for ethics and to increase the relevance …

Pragmatism is likely to be one of the most underestimated and misunderstood philosophical
traditions of our epoch. It certainly merits more attention than it has thus far received in the …

In this paper I argue that, rather than theory development aim at simplifying complex
organizational phenomena, it should aim at complexifying theories–theoretical complexity is …

This article presents a constitutive approach to the study of organizational contradictions,
dialectics, paradoxes, and tensions. In particular, it highlights five constitutive dimensions …

The only textbook to use a three-perspective framework to explain, explore, and evaluate
organizational theory in a distinctively engaging style. A well-established and highly …

We critically examine three major assumptions of modernist organization science: rational
agency, empirical knowledge, and language as representation. With these assumptions …