Organization Studies and the New Pragmatism: Positivism, Anti-positivism, and the Search for Ethics

Organization Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-140

  Wicks, Andrew C ^a   Freeman, R Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Ethics; Pragmatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032386941     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.2.123     Document Type: Article

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