Can Sociological Paradigms Still Inform Organizational Analysis? A Paradigm Model for Post-Paradigm Times
通过元理论分析后结构主义和后现代主义运动，提出一个回顾性范式，将其研究特征归纳为本体论相对主义、认识论关系主义和方法论反思性，并论证该范式可纳入Burrell和Morgan的组织理论分类模型中。
The Burrell and Morgan model for classifying organization theory is revisited through meta-theoretical analysis of the major intellectual movement to emerge in recent decades, post-structuralism and more broadly postmodernism. Proposing a retrospective paradigm for this movement, we suggest that its research can be characterized as ontologically relativist , epistemologically relationist and methodologically reflexive ; this also represents research that can be termed deconstructionist in its view of human nature. When this paradigm is explored further, in terms of Burrell and Morgan’s assumptions for the ‘nature of society’, two analytical domains emerge – normative post-structural and critical post-structural . Assessing the types of research developed within them, and focusing on actor-network theory in particular, we describe how post-structural and postmodern thinking can be classified within , rather than outside, or after, the Burrell and Morgan model. Consequently we demonstrate not only that organizational knowledge stands on meta-theoretical grounds, but also how recent intellectual developments rest on a qualitatively different set of meta-theoretical assumptions than established traditions of agency and structure.