A Four Times Told Tale: Combining Narrative and Scientific Knowledge in Organization Studies
反思社会科学文本使用的文学手段,分析组织理论文本中事实与隐喻、逻辑与故事的不同结合方式,并对组织理论体裁进行制度分析。
A growing acknowledgement of the fact that social scientific texts employ a variety of literary means encourages and requires collective reflection and genre analysis. The present article applies such reflection to organization theory texts, revealing differing ways in which facts and metaphors, logic and stories are woven together. In conclusion, the genre of organization theory is submitted to an institutional analysis.