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Teorie, paradygmaty, metafory i ideologie zarządzania – kontrowersje wokół współczesnego dyskursu organizacji i zarządzania
Theories, paradigms, metaphors and ideologies of management – different ways of performing organizational and managerial discourse

Author(s): Łukasz Sułkowski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: epistemology of organization and management; paradigms of management; methaphors of management; ideologies of management

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to illustrate the multiplicity of ways of performing organizational and managerial discourse by analyzing epistemological and praxeological dimensions of different scientific constructs such as: theories; paradigms; metaphors and ideologies. The range of ways of performing organizational and managerial discourse can illustrate the fundamental difference between two ways of understanding science. The first method; the result of which should be scientific theories; can be described with the term “epistemological fundamentalism”. The second method could be described as “epistemological plurslistism”; based on the multiplicity of interpretations and incommesurabilities.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 422
  • Page Range: 131-143
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish