Faces of Methodological Pluralism in Management Science - an Institutional Perspective

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  • Beata Stępień Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu

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https://doi.org/10.18559/SOEP.2016.1.4

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Management, Management paradigms

Abstract

The aim of this article is to show that the choice and adherence to a particular methodological paradigm (together with the use of certain research methods) is shaped not only by scientific choice, but results from environmental pressure. Th e article begins with a short presentation of the methodology and institutions' traits, that provides the grounds to collate methodology with a set of procedural rules in science. Such an understanding allows the analysis of the creation, choice and paradigmatic adherence from the point of view of environmental pressure and legitimacy. The last part of the paper is an initial conceptual framework that describes relationships between an environmental variability/ turbulence and isomorphic and pro-active, rule breaking behaviour of scientists and academicians , concerning the choice and usage of certain research methods.

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2016-01-31

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Stępień , B. (2016). Faces of Methodological Pluralism in Management Science - an Institutional Perspective. Studia Oeconomica Posnaniensia, 4(1), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.18559/SOEP.2016.1.4