The Problem of Experience in the Study of Organizations
Organization StudiesPublished 1 January 1993Open access
Lloyd Sandelands, V. Srivatsan
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This paper deals with the fact that we cannot experience large organizations directly, in the same way as we can experience individuals or small groups, and that this non-experientiability has certain implications for our scientific theories of organizations. Whereas a science is animated by a constructive interplay of theory concepts and experience concepts, the study of organizations has been confined to theory concepts alone. Implications of this analysis for developing a science of organizations are considered.
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