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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organisation studies
Författare
Summary, in English
The use of concepts is a vital part of the research process. Many researchers overexploit popular concepts by adding more and more vague and poorly defined meanings to them, thereby making their boundaries unclear and the concepts increasingly unwieldy. We will refer to these types of concepts as hembigs – an acronym for hegemonic, ambiguous, big concepts. The article demonstrates the problem in three domains: leadership, strategy and institution. It suggests ways to mitigate the problems with dominant scientific concepts, overloaded with more or less incoherent meanings.
Avdelning/ar
- Strategi
- Organisation
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
58-86
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Human Relations
Volym
75
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- institutional theory
- leadership
- method
- organization studies
- reflexivity
- strategy
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0018-7267