Shaping a Constructivist View of Organizational Design Science

M. J. Avenier
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M. J. Avenier: Management, entrepreneuriat, innovation - CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The so-called rigor—relevance gap appears unbridgeable in the classical view of organization science, which is based on the physical sciences' model. Constructivist scholars have also pointed out a certain inadequacy of this model of science for organization research, but they have not offered an explicit, alternative model of science. Responding to this lack, this paper brings together the two separate paradigmatic perspectives of constructivist epistemologies and of organizational design science, and shows how they could jointly constitute the ingredients of a constructivism-founded scientific paradigm for organization research. Further, the paper highlights that, in this constructivist view of organizational design science, knowledge can be generated and used in ways that are mutually enriching for academia and practice.

Keywords: Shaping; a; Constructivist; View; of; Organizational; Design; Science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in Organization Studies, 2010, 31 (9-10), pp.1229-1255. ⟨10.1177/0170840610374395⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0170840610374395

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