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Crossroads Style as Theory

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  • John Van Maanen

    (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

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A small but significant portion of writing in the still expanding domain of organizational research and theory is devoted to debunking the essentialist and (allegedly) scientifically grounded ideas and programs of our peers. Some of my writing, including this effort, falls within this tradition. Debunking the would-be towers of power in our field bears a loose similarity to the work performed by voluntary firefighters. The fire of interest here is a call to draw in our topical and theoretical borders, and the intellectual incendiary is none other than Jeffrey Pfeffer whose 1992 Distinguished Scholar Address to the Organization Theory Division of the Academy of Management started a modest little blaze that was followed by my own 1993 Distinguished Scholar Address to the same group which was designed to put it out. A stroke of luck too, for what better theorist could a confessed anti-theorist wish to follow and what better foil for debunking could have been sent forward than an acknowledged desperado of the podium like Jeffrey, who courts controversy like a bear in search of honey. In what follows, I recreate in writing what I first committed to speech.

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  • John Van Maanen, 1995. "Crossroads Style as Theory," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 6(1), pages 133-143, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:ororsc:v:6:y:1995:i:1:p:133-143
    DOI: 10.1287/orsc.6.1.133
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