MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ontologism, Individualism, Ethnography
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Modernism: objectivist ontology, epistemology positivists, organizations: real entities operate in real world; efficiency, organization theory: universal methods, techniques of control and organization; rules; standardized procedures. Symbolic-interpretivism: subjective ontologism, epistemology interpretivists, organization: continuously reconstructed by their members, how people make sense and order to their experiences. Postmodernism: ontology: postmodernism; what is talked about exists, epistomology: postmodernism; no facts only interpretations, no meanings set, organizations: place of power relation, oppression etc; can be rewritten, against managerial ideologies and modernist ways of organizing, reflexive. Ontology: assumptions about reality, subjectivists (things exist if it is experienced and is given meaning to, objectivists (reality exists independently of us; world shapes us) Epistomology: knowing how to know, positivist (you can discover through scientific measures) Interpretive (knowledge is created and can only be understood from the perspective of the individual chunking. Critical organization theory focuses on systems that determine distribution of power; emancipation of workers.
