We critically examine three major assumptions of modernist organization science: rational
agency, empirical knowledge, and language as representation. With these assumptions
problematized, we are positioned for a postmodern turn in the discipline. From a postmodern …

Prescriptions regarding organization-scientific methodology are typically founded on the
researcher's ability to approach perfect rationality. In a critical examination of the use of
scientific reasoning (deduction, induction, abduction) in organization research, we seek to …

We present a problem-centered organizing framework of trust, in which prominent
conceptualizations of trust and distrust from the organizational and allied social sciences are
categorized based on the questions they attempt to answer. The framework we outline here …

Based on literature from the domains of organization science, marketing, accounting, and
management information systems, this review article examines the theoretical basis of the
information overload discourse and presents an overview of the main definitions, situations …

Critical theory is presented as a general method for analyzing an organization science
based on either a natural science or interpretive paradigm. This is accomplished by
introducing epistemic inquiry into organization science methodology. Specifically, critical …

This paper reviews and evaluates the concept of power in management and organization
science. In order to organize the extant literature on this topic, we develop a framework that
identifies four faces of power (ie coercion, manipulation, domination, and subjectification) …

Mitchell (1996), and Arthur, Durlauf, and Lane (1997). The study of complex adaptive
systems (Cowan, Pines, and Meltzer, 1994) has become the ultimate interdisciplinary
science, focusing its modeling activities on how microstate events, whether particles …

Synthetic adaptation is the process whereby any entity composed of intelligent, adaptive,
and computational agents is also an intelligent, adaptive, and computational agent. Because
of synthetic adaptation, organizations, like the agents of which they are composed, are …

Chaos and complexity theory, as developed in mathematics and the natural sciences, has
led to major new advances in the understanding of natural phenomena that previously were
considered too complex or unpatterned to comprehend. These advances have been slow to …

In this paper, I argue that the practice and prescriptions of organization science deal
inadequately with issues of alienation and injustice in organizational settings. I outline steps
toward a radical framework for the practice of organization science and explore the …