Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Fiat lux: a reflection on management research

2005; Volume: 1; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1504/ijmcp.2005.008516

1741-8135

Les Worrall,

Organizational Learning and Leadership

In an era when both practitioners and management researchers are being asked to become more reflexive not only about the work they do but also the way that they do it, this paper examines the changing research stance of a researcher who has published extensively in the field of organisational analysis, largely from a positivist perspective when the world around him seems to be taking a postmodernist turn. The paper poses a number of issues that are relevant to both emerging management researchers and those with a longer track record. In the final section of the paper, a framework is developed which explores the ontological and epistemological assumptions that are often unconsciously taken as given or unquestioned in many management research projects.