Perspectives in Organisational Analysis and the Management of Change

Abstract

Recently some organisation analysts have drawn attention to the assumptions underlying their discipline, differentiating, for example, subjectivist from objectivist, and political regulation from radical positions, macro from micro and determinist from voluntarist positions. Such differentiation of theoretical assumptions signals that the discipline is avoiding not only the “lure of the universal theory” but also the “lure of universal method”, if we may so describe it.

Citation

S, Fox and Smith, D. (1986), "Perspectives in Organisational Analysis and the Management of Change", Personnel Review, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 8-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055538