Shotter, John; Tsoukas, Haridimos - In: Philosophy and organization theory, (pp. 311-342). 2011
In this chapter, drawing primarily on Wittgenstein, we argue that a representationalist view of theory in an applied or practical science such as organization and management theory (OMT) is unrealistic and misleading, since it fails to acknowledge theory's ineradicable dependence on the dynamics...