Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research: Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction
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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 -