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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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Interpretive unpacking : moderately destabilizing identities and images in organization studies
Författare
Redaktör
- Edwin A. Locke
Summary, in English
The paper reviews some basic themes in postmodernism and argues for a moderate incorporation of these themes in organization studies and methodology. This approach, named interpretive unpacking, takes issues of multiple and fluid meanings, ambiguities and fragmentation seriously without the a priori privileging of these qualities over assumptions of stable meanings and coherence in social phenomena. The suggested position is illustrated in the fields of identity and image in organization studies through a critical reading of a key text. Assumptions around identities, identification, beliefs, perceptions and images are here problematized and seen as themes for critical exploration and careful interpretive inquiry rather than as robust starting points for the formulation of hypothesis for testing.
Avdelning/ar
- Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2003
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
3-27
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Volym
21
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
- Philosophy
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0733-558X
- ISBN: 978-1-84950-573-4
- ISBN: 978-0-76231-004-3