The Place of Culture in Organization Theory

Introducing the Morphogenetic Approach

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8096085
AutoresRobert Archer (0000-0002-2420-0109), Robert P Archer (0000-0002-8253-4705, University of Birmingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume7
Fascículo1
Páginas95-128
Data de publicação2000-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOrganization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/135050840071006
OpenAlexW2145665976
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas35

As Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) pointed out over a decade ago, the concept of culture seemed to be sliding inexorably into a superficial explanatory pool that promised everything and nothing. However, since then, some sophisticated and interesting theoretical developments have prevented drowning in the pool of superficiality and hence theoretical redundancy. The purpose of this article is to build upon such theoretical developments and to introduce an approach that maintains that culture can be theorized in the same way as structure, possessing irreducible powers and properties that predispose organizational actors towards specific courses of action. The morphogenetic approach is the methodological complement of transcendental realism, providing explanatory leverage on the conditions that maintain for cultural change or stability

Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Nothing · Realism · Sociology · Transcendental number · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Critical Realism in Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy