Reasons and rationalizations : the limits to organizational knowledge /

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? The author questions many of the assumptions of organizational theory and research.

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Argyris, Chris, 1923-2013.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction; 2. The Corrosion of Character: Capitalist and Socialist Economics; 3. Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Business Organizations; 4. Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Government and Information Technology; 5. Features of Scholarly Inquiry that Inhibit Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity; 6. Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning; 7. Organizational Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning; 8. Conclusion; References; Index. 
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