«Organizational issues developed, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, in a sort of free-for-all manner, according to a common-sense perspective far from the methodological rigor of scientific analysis. The methodological confusion is still widespread and puts a large part of social disciplines in a state of serious backwardness with respect to the natural sciences. Natural scientists refer to this backwardness to underline the superiority of their studies, and philosophers do the same to persist in imposing intuition as the only method for knowing man, against the Galilean experimental perspective.»
«Scholars of social disciplines do not always realize the weakness of their analyses, barely protected by statistical methods applied without any leading theoretical hypotheses about the social context. Moreover, many social researchers take every opportunity to oppose, with inconsistent arguments, the scientific analysis of behavior. They consider as an oversimplification, rather than a milestone in knowledge, the precise definition of the research field which allows behaviorism to construct, on experimental grounds, an intersubjective and syntactically consistent explicative language, based on a set of relations (functions) between terms with a univocal meaning (unlike the common-language terms, whose domain of application is indeterminate and vague).»
«The prejudices deriving from the human-nature dualism play a primary role in orienting scholars towards contrasting particularistic schemata rather than a general and unitary schema. Furthermore, when analyses are particularistic and specific as in the field of organizational studies, the risk exists of confusing the organization’s theoretical (explicative) facet with its economic facet or its political facet (necessarily grounded on judgment paradigms).» IT
(Il concetto di organizzazione secondo il paradigma scientifico [The concept of organization in the scientific paradigm], pp. 273, 283, 288-289)
Il concetto di organizzazione secondo il paradigma scientifico
[The concept of organization in the scientific paradigm]
[The concept of organization in the scientific paradigm]
1. Premessa metodologica [Methodological premises]
2. L’analisi scientifica del comportamento e l’esplicazione del concetto di organizzazione [The scientific analysis of behavior and the explication of the concept of organization]
3. Alcune osservazioni critiche sugli studi organizzativi [Some critical remarks on organizational studies]
Conclusioni [Conclusion]
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