Some remarks on the problem of incommensurability in organization studies

Organization Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 519-544

  Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a   Steinmann, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constuctivism; Incommensurability; Paradigms; Philosophy of science; Pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041037007     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840699203006     Document Type: Article

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