Interpretation—Appropriation: (Making) an Example of Labor Process Theory
探讨解释性组织研究中可能存在的伦理问题，以英国劳动过程理论为例，指出其解释实践与反压迫价值观的矛盾，并类比解释、挪用与殖民化，反思更道德的批判性研究。
In this article, the author explores ethically problematic relations that may be reproduced within a genre of interpretive organizational research: namely, (U.K.) labor process theory (LPT). Although the author endorses LPT’s critical and explicitly antioppressive values, he argues that interpretive practices employed by core authors contradict the genre’s value base and function to silence and appropriate challenging empirical elements to affirm LPT’s valued interpretive schema. The author draws out deeply problematic implications of such appropriation through highlighting parallels between interpretation, appropriation, and colonization. The author ends by considering the nature of, and possibility for, more ethical “critical” interpretive organizational research.