Given the rapid expansion of narrative approaches in management and organization theory
in recent years, this paper investigates the contribution of this literature to the understanding …

The term qualitative management research embraces an array of non‐statistical research
practices. Here it is argued that this diversity is an outcome of competing philosophical …

Dr Phil Johnson is Professor of HRM at The School of Management, Sheffield University. He
has undertaken and published research mainly in the areas of epistemology, methodology …

I have spent a significant part of my working life over the last 25 years developing and
applying cultural perspectives on organizations. Despite considerable irritation with many …

Organizational Communication: Approaches and Processes, 6th ed. Page 1 Organizational
Communication: Approaches and Processes SIXTH EDITION Katherine Miller Texas A&M …

This book is an introduction to a key issue in management research that usually goes
unnoticed ą epistemology and its variability. Our thesis is that management research can …

When Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan wrote Sociological Paradigms and Organisational
Analysis, I doubt that they, or anyone else, would have anticipated the widespread impact or …

Over the last 20 years, social science scholars have challenged conventional conceptions of
social reality, knowledge, and the validity of our methods of inquiry. Many have criticized the …

1970s and beginning of the 1980s (for example, Benson 1977; Burrell and Morgan 1979;
Frost 1980; Deetz and Kersten 1983; Fischer and Sirianni 1984) and postmodernism …

The terms' modem'and'postmodern'have become common currency in intel lectual debates
within organization studies. The postmodern is variously inter preted as an'epoch' …