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| Titre : |
Pursuing a “Justifiable View on a Particular Organizational Phenomenon”: An Issue Investigated in the Radical Constructivist Epistemological Paradigm |
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| Numéro : |
35 |
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| Année : |
2009 |
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| Volume : |
XV |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Marie-josé AVENIER |
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| Résumé : |
This article examines what can be qualified as a “justifiable view on a particular organizational phenomenon” and how to construct such a view in research projects explicitly taking place in the radical constructivist epistemological paradigm. This paradigm neither denies nor asserts the existence of an objective world populated by mind-independent entities—a “world-as-is”. It only postulates that humans cannot know such a thing as an independent, objective world that stands apart from their experience of it, while they can, however, know a “world-as-experienced”. In this paradigm, “a justifiable view on a particular organizational phenomenon” can be defined as a richly informed representation of the phenomenon, where “representation” designates a symbolic construction expressing an interpretation of a subject’s experience. Of particular note, in this paradigm it is not known if a representation is similar, or not similar, to the world that has induced the experience. As a result, such a “justifiable view” remains a situated and goal-oriented construction. The construction of justifiable views concerning organizational phenomena can be considered as a major goal of scientific research in organization studies, no matter the archetype of science in which the research is carried out—be it a science of nature or a science of the artificial. The legitimization of the justifiable character of a particular view concerning a certain phenomenon rests on the ethics, rigor and transparency with which the epistemic and empirical work contributing to the construction of this view has been carried out. |
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| Pages : |
49 - 71 |
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| DOI : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2009-35-page-49.htm |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
methodology, epistemology, radical constructivism, epistemic work, knowledge legitimization |
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| APA : |
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| Citations : |
3 |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2009-35-page-49.htm |
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