This paper argues that a new scientific framework (Science II) has been slowly emerging, rivaling the Descartes-Newtonian perspective (Science I) dominant for several hundred years. The Science II framework places a great deal of emphasis on evolution, dynamism, chance and/or pattern...

The relevance to economics of naturalised epistemology (also known as the naturalistic turn) from philosophy of science has recently been argued by economic methodologists, especially by D. Wade Hands (Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory, Cambridge,...

The S–O discourse includes themes that have been variously summarized as “objectivism” ( Hermans, Kempen & van Loon, 1992 ) and “the received view of science” (or “RVS,” see Woolgar, 1996 ). Others, speaking of competing “paradigms” in qualitative research, have referred to...

Purpose – Recent findings in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, and brain evolution are interpreted in light of Hayek's construction of the sensory order as a spontaneously emergent evolutionary adaptation. The sensory order is an experimental view of reality ordered by experience. Approach...

In this volume of Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, leading scholars from the fields of management, organization development, information technology, and education come together to chart new directions in Appreciative Inquiry theory and research as well as new intervention practices and...

No scholar or researcher is able to provide robust evidence that counters the scant reflection on metatheory – mostly ontology and epistemology – underlying management studies in general, and industrial marketing and purchasing research in particular. This paper is a contribution to the...

chapter 1 Introduction: epistemology, experiments and economics -- part PART 1 The social epistemology of experiment -- chapter 2 Creating phenomena in the lab -- chapter 3 Creating microeconomic phenomena -- chapter 4 Intervening in the ‘material world’ -- chapter 5 Intervening in the...

Prison ethnographers have tended to downplay the epistemological and methodological dilemmas relating to identity and positionality, which have been more commonly rehearsed in anthropological and sociological ethnographies. This paper explores these issues through a reflexive interrogation of a...