On the Social Nature of Explicating Mystery Construction in Theory Development: A Response to McKinley
本文是Alvesson和Kärreman对McKinley批评的回应,澄清他们提出的“谜题”概念不同于库恩的“异常”,并强调理论构建中谜题构建的社会性。
An editorial from Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman in response to an editorial written by William McKinley on Alvesson and Kärreman's article on working with mysteries as a methodology for for developing new theoretical ideas is presented. Alvesson and Kärreman address McKinley's concerns that they lack conceptual parsimony through not giving credit to Kuhn's term and defend that their concept of mystery is different than Kuhn's concept of anomaly.