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Theorizing Managerial Work: a Pragmatic Pluralist Approach to Interdisciplinary Research

Author(s) -

Watson Tony J.

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

british journal of management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407

H-Index - 108

eISSN - 1467-8551

pISSN - 1045-3172

DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.00034

Subject(s) - sociology , variety (cybernetics) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , pluralism (philosophy) , ethnography , work (physics) , engineering ethics , management science , social science , computer science , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , artificial intelligence , anthropology

Management research is especially open to the benefits of using insights from a variety of social science disciplines but it should not use these indiscriminately. A strategy of pragmatic pluralism is proposed as a way of ensuring that concepts taken from different social science paradigms or disciplines are drawn together into a single coherent perspective to shape the particular study to which they relate. This is illustrated with reference to an ethnographic study of managerial work carried out by the author.

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