THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE IN ADMINISTRATION

Abdulah Bubacar Djaló, Mário Procopiuck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5329/RECADM.20100901007

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to try to sustain the thesis that the division of organizational studies into organizational theory and organizational behaviour is obstructing the further development of knowledge in administration. To argue that point we begin our paper carrying out a brief consideration on subjectivist and objectivist forms of knowledge and on the three models of theoretical knowledge in order to demonstrate how this division has discouraged the development of knowledge best suited to theories of organization. This position is further supported through a brief presentation of relevant phenomenological and post-structural insights. The paper concludes with a brief sketch of the organizational process and suggests how our knowledge might be furthered by abandoning the putative distinction between theory and practice in the domain of organization studies.

 


Keywords

Organization theory; organizational behaviour; scientific knowledge; structuralism; subjectivism and objectivism

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