PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ADVISORY BOARD -- INTRODUCTION: WHY PHILOSOPHY MATTERS TO ORGANIZATION THEORY -- ABOUT THIS VOLUME -- REFERENCES -- ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY: PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS AND SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES -- LOGICAL EMPIRICISM AND THE PROBLEM WITH FOUNDATIONS IN ORGANIZATION THEORY -- PARADIGMS AND THEIR POSTMODERNIST COUSINS IN ORGANIZATION THEORY -- PHILOSOPHICAL ANSWERS AND SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS: NATURALISM AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRAGMATISM: A LIVED AND LIVING PHILOSOPHY. WHAT CAN IT OFFER TO CONTEMPORARY ORGANIZATION THEORY? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CLASSICAL PRAGMATISTS IN CONTEXT -- FOUR KEY THEMES IN PRAGMATISM -- PRAGMATISM IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING -- PRAGMATISM, PRACTICE AND SENSEMAKING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MACINTYRE, NEO-ARISTOTELIANISM AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: PRACTICES - HERMENEUTIC AND MACINTYREAN -- PART TWO: MACINTYREAN ORGANIZATION THEORY -- PART THREE: MACINTYREAN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: A REWORKING OF WEICK AND SUTCLIFFE ON THE BRISTOL RVI -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION - AN AGENDA FOR MACINTYREAN ORGANIZATION THEORY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MARXIST PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES: MARXIST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOME IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS -- INTRODUCTION -- MARXISM: KEY IDEAS -- THE SCOPE OF MARXIST THEORY -- MARXIST PERSPECTIVES ON SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS -- MARXISM'S CRITICS -- IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BEYOND UNIVERSALISM AND RELATIVISM: HABERMAS'S CONTRIBUTION TO DISCOURSE ETHICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERCULTURAL ETHICS AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE 'UNITY OF REASON' AND ITS CRITIQUE IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY.

DISCOURSE ETHICS AND ITS MODES OF (INTERCULTURAL) JUSTIFICATION -- CONCLUSION: ON THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INTERCULTURAL ETHICS -- REFERENCES -- HERMENEUTIC PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- HERMENEUTICS: A BRIEF HISTORY -- META-THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT GUIDE ORGANIZATION STUDIES -- HERMENEUTICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PHENOMENOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- TRACING THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ROOTS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY -- DISCUSSION: SOME MAJOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ORGANIZING DERRIDA ORGANIZING: DECONSTRUCTION AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- DECONSTRUCTION: ORGANIZING DERRIDA -- DECONSTRUCTION AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- THREE APORIAS: DERRIDA ORGANIZING -- IMPLICATIONS OF DECONSTRUCTIVE THINKING -- REFERENCES -- THINKING BECOMING AND EMERGENCE: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- SUBSTANCE ONTOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY -- PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND BECOMING ONTOLOGY -- IMPLICATIONS: A PROCESSUAL UNDERSTANDING OF COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THEORY AS THERAPY: WITTGENSTEINIAN REMINDERS FOR REFLECTIVE THEORIZING IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT THEORY -- FOREGROUNDING OUR 'BACKGROUND' PRACTICES -- WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHY: A 'PRECURSOR' WORLD -- WITTGENSTEIN'S WAYS WITH WORDS -- PRACTICAL-DESCRIPTIVE ORGANIZATION THEORY: TOWARDS REFLECTIVE THEORIZING -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: FROM MAPS TO PORTRAYALS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- TRIANGULATING PHILOSOPHIES OF SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGERIAL PROBLEMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PHILOSOPHIES OF SCIENCE -- TRIANGULATION -- CASE OF PROFESSIONAL GROUPS.

TYPES OF PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE TRIANGULATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- RICHARD RORTY, WOMEN, AND THE NEW PRAGMATISM -- MY FIRST MEETING WITH NEW PRAGMATISM -- WHERE IS TRUTH? -- PRAGMATIST MANIFESTO -- SOLIDARITY IN THE CENTER OF THINGS -- ETHNOCENTRISM? -- ON METHOD -- DOES EVERYBODY LIKE RORTY? PRAGMATISM AND FEMINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.