Table of contents - Special Issue: Theories are Methods. Or are they? Methodological options for organization and management research
Guest Editors: Steffen Roth, Albert Mills, Bill Lee, Dariusz Jemielniak
Theory as method: introduction to supertheoretical options for organization and management research
Steffen Roth, Albert Mills, Bill Lee, Dariusz JemielniakThis article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies.
Integrating instrumental and normative stakeholder theories: a systems theory approach
Vladislav Valentinov, Anna HajduThe stakeholder theory encompasses instrumental and normative varieties whose mutual relationship remains unclear and exhibits a classic tension between rational self-interest and…
Draw your organization! A solution-focused theory-method for business school challenges and change
Steffen RothThis study aims to present a solution-focused approach to current problems and criticisms faced by business schools.
Research methods as bridging devices: path and context mapping in governance
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Monica Gruezmacher, Martijn Duineveld, Leith Deacon, Robert Summers, Lars Hallstrom, Kevin JonesThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential, both analytically and practically, of understanding research methods as bridging devices. Methods can bridge theory and…
Functional differentiation of society as a middle-range theory: Semantic analysis of modern insurance in Germany during the nineteenth century
Kosuke SakaiThis paper aimed to analyze the ways in which Niklas Luhmann's theory of the functional differentiation of society can be applied to historical studies. To achieve this, a…
Social systems theory and engaged scholarship: co-designing a semantic reservoir in a polycentric network
Margit NeisigThe purpose is to investigate a position for engaged scholarship bridging the gulf between theorizing and practice in a social system perspective using Design Thinking for…
Bracketing: a phenomenological theory applied through transpersonal reflexivity
Viktor Dörfler, Marc StierandThe purpose of this study is to improve our understanding of bracketing, one of the most central philosophical and theoretical constructs of phenomenology, as a theory of mind…
A theory of (research) practice makes sense in sensemaking: Applying Bourdieu’s critical social theory to the study of sensemaking change
Adriana van HiltenThe purpose of this paper is to introduce Bourdieu’s social theory, and its “thinking tools” of habitus, doxa, field and capital, as a sensemaking theory.
Creating institutional disruption: an alternative method to study institutions
Devon GidleyThis paper develops a new method to study institutions based on institutional work theory. Institutional disruption is intentionally utilized to explore the taken-for-granted…
New theories and organization research: from the eyes of change
Masoud ShadnamIn recent years, organization scholars have engaged in several conversations about the process of theory development, and offered many proposals for building new theories of…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Slawomir Magala