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- Title
More Fragmentation? Unfinished Business in Linking the Social Sciences and Humanities.
- Authors
Zald, Mayer N.
- Abstract
Although administrative science (organizational studies) has made much progress since the founding of ASQ, it continues to be a fragmented field of study. This essay explores one source of the continuing and possibly increasing fragmentation of administrative science the extensive but partial rapprochement with the humanities that has occurred in recent decades. I argue that the opening to the humanities is useful because it helps us understand processes and phenomena that are not well explored in more traditional modes, but the opening is still incomplete. It has taken place most fully in research using deconstructive, rhetorical, and narrative analysis growing out of literary theory, and there has been some engagement with history and historical analysis. The connection to the traditional topics of philosophy have been most disjointed. An agenda for further research is suggested.
- Subjects
SOCIAL sciences; HUMANITIES; SOCIAL theory; LITERARY theory; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; ORGANIZATIONAL structure
- Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1996, Vol 41, Issue 2, p251
- ISSN
0001-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2393717