TY - CHAP

T1 - Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research

T2 - Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction

AU - Cornelissen, Joep

AU - Schoeneborn, Dennis

AU - Vásquez, Consuelo

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - In this chapter, we reflect on process perspectives on organizations from a meta-theoretical viewpoint and discuss the language that researchers use to conceptualize organizations as process. Our considerations are based on two main premises: First, in general, we believe language to be performative in the sense that it constitutes reality (cf. Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969); second, and more directly related to the focus of our inquiry, the ways researchers conceptually reason in terms of implicit assumptions is fundamentally shaped by the language they use (Cornelissen, 2005). More specifically, and in line with studies of science in action (e.g., ...

AB - In this chapter, we reflect on process perspectives on organizations from a meta-theoretical viewpoint and discuss the language that researchers use to conceptualize organizations as process. Our considerations are based on two main premises: First, in general, we believe language to be performative in the sense that it constitutes reality (cf. Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969); second, and more directly related to the focus of our inquiry, the ways researchers conceptually reason in terms of implicit assumptions is fundamentally shaped by the language they use (Cornelissen, 2005). More specifically, and in line with studies of science in action (e.g., ...

KW - Management studies

KW - Organisation studies

KW - Organisation development

U2 - 10.4135/9781473957954.n39

DO - 10.4135/9781473957954.n39

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 9781446297018

SP - 607

EP - 615

BT - Sage Handbook of Process Organization Studies

A2 - Langley, Ann

A2 - Tsoukas, Hari

PB - SAGE Publications Inc.

CY - London

ER -