Reasons and Rationalizations
The Limits to Organizational Knowledge
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 January 2006
- ISBN 9780199286829
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 216x138x14 mm
- Weight 309 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Tables 0
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Short description:
This is a book about how social sciences can be improved in ways that its relevance is expanded, the applicability of its knowledge is enlarged and increased, and the commitment to questioning the status quo is strengthened.
MoreLong description:
What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity?
We are told we live in turbulent and changing times, should this not provide an important opportunity for management researchers to provide understanding and guidance? Yet there is widespread concern about the efficacy of much research:
These are some of the puzzles that Chris Argyris addresses in this short book.
Argyris is one of the best known management scholars in the world - a leading light whose work has consistently addressed fundamental organizational questions, and who has provided some of the key concepts and building blocks of our understanding of organizational learning - single and double learning, theory in use, and espoused theory etc.
In this book he questions many of the assumptions of organizational theory and research, and his investigation is not confined to academic analysis. He also scrutinizes that capacity for 'unproductive reasoning' (self-deception and rationalization) that is common amongst managers, consultants, and indeed more generally. As well as engaging with the work of leading organizational researchers (Sennett, Gabriel, Burgelman, Czarniawska, Grint, for example)he also ponders the work of the consultants, commentators, and accountants who endorsed Enron.
Throughout his purpose is to affirm the goal and values of useful knowledge. His style is direct but fair, challenging, if at times uncompromising. Drawing on his own wealth of experience of researching and working with organizations, this book will be a reference point for all concerned to develop useful knowledge and confront the defences and deceptions that are only too commonplace in the business and academic worlds.
Review from previous edition Reasons and Rationalizations is one of the most challenging and powerful books produced in the field of management for many years. It is not surprising when you consider it was written by one of the world's leading management scholars. Professor Argyris' contribution to the management and applied social science literature has no rival, he is in a league literally by himself. This outstanding book is a must read for all managers and executives, academics in business schools, applied social scientists, and any others prepared to think about and confront the challenges of organizational life in our times.
Table of Contents:
Introductory Remarks
The Corrosion of Character: Capitalist and Socialist Economics
Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Business Organizations
Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Government and I.T.
Features of Scholarly Inquiry that Inhibit Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity
Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning
Organizational Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning
Concluding Comments
