Writing Organizational Tales: Reflections on Three Books on Organizational Culture
作者以组织文化研究“退学者”身份,评论三本组织文化著作,认为研究者不是客观记录者,而是被语言社区塑造的叙事者。
I must confess that I’m an organizational culture dropout. It’s been a while since I felt much interest in reading about organizational culture. But Dvora Yanow had framed my task in an intriguing way. She asked me to comment on these three organizational culture books by Trice and Beyer, Kunda, and Martin respectively, as writings that tell stories about organizations and those who research them. Already inherent in this framing is a view that repositions the researcher from scientist to narrator. This view understands the researcher, not as a well-placed observer-scribe using language to mirror the organizational reality he or she witnesses, but as someone already embedded in a language community that shapes what can be said as knowledge.