promoting interpretive paradigm in organizational theory: a reflection on organizational storytelling approach

Seeking Continuity Amidst Organizational Change A Storytelling Approach

Organizational Black Hole Theory

There are issues in organizations that require new theoretical formulation. Hence, metaphorical theorizing is used in the study of organizations to interpret them and understand their complexities. In this method, the organization is likened to an entity and one of the key features of that entity is generalized to the organization. It should be borne in mind that most organizational theories ar...

Darwinism—A new paradigm for organizational behavior?

The Special Issue reflects a growing interest in Darwinian ideas and their increasing application to work and organizational issues, analyzes factors that have impeded its adoption as a paradigm and considers the prospects for future growth. After a brief introduction to key concepts in the new Darwinism, some histories, and controversies are traced. Causes for the particularly slow uptake of t...

Factors Affecting Organizational Commitment and the Role of Organizational Justice in Promoting

The present study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting organizational commitment and the role of organizational justice in promoting it. Purposeful study is an applied research. The statistical population consisted of specialists working in petrochemical companies located in Pars Special Economic Region (Assaluyeh). The sample size was 260 according to the Cochran formula. The res...

The Paradigm Shift in Organizational Research

The creation and development of theory and methods used in the study of organizations is predominantly carried out grounded in the positivist paradigm – epistemological and methodological assumptions similar to those of the natural sciences. This essay looks at the limitations of that paradigm for the study of human organizations and the benefits of relativist, humanist and post-modern assumpti...

Exploring Organizational Consciousness: A Critical Approach towards Organizational Behavior

Maintaining a higher level of organizational performance would always remain an active research focus. Increased complexity in business environment requires organizations to continuously revisit their human resources for augmented output. Organizational consciousness is a relatively new paradigm for analyzing organizational behavior that views organizations as self-consciousness entities. The a...