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Finally, responding to the ascendance of interpretive OT in the 1970s and 1980s, in which meaning and human agency are strongly highlighted, positivist accounts have expanded their scope to include aspects of agency and meaning, such as cognition and culture, into their agenda (Tenbrunsel etal. 1996).
Certain insights from Silverman's (1971) interpretive critique of positivist OT in the 1970s and Weick's (1979) phenomenological model of organizing have been 'translated' into other research traditions and have led to interesting developments in, for example, the institutional school of OT and the cognitive perspective on organizations.
For example, a positivist epistemology assumes that the language of the researcher more clearly represents than lay language what is really going on in an object of study (cf.
Moreover, the knowledge produced by a positivist epistemology is thought to be external to its users, by whom it is instrumentally used in order to optimize a particular performance variable, and is devoid of any intrinsic ethical commitments (cf.
A positivist epistemology aims at enhancing the effectiveness of formal organizations in the context of a rationalized society (Burrell 1996; Marsden and Townley 1996; Reed 1996).
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