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No. 1(6) (2014): The Politics of Truth

Could a Consultant Be a Constructionist?

  • Barbara Czarniawska
Submitted
12 June 2020
Published
01-04-2014

Abstract

This article explores difficulties of employing a constructionist stance when confronted with the institutionalized expectations of managers. The difficulty is grounded in a contrast between the logic of representation, conventionally used in contacts between researchers and managers, and the logic of practice, which is the medium of everyday organizational life and the focus of constructionist interest. The final discussion raises the question of whether the two kinds of logic can be reconciled with the logic of theory and the contract between managerial practice and managerial theory rewritten along new lines.

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