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Copyright Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas Apr-Jun 2016

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to present some reflections about the ontological and epistemological nature of Management research. More precisely, we expose the foundations of a possible dialogue between critical realism and social constructionism, constituting a reference framework for the development of organizational studies. In order to do so, a brief and non-exhausting discussion of these conceptions' main formulations and elaborations was made, positioning its particularities and its central ontological, epistemological, and methodological issues. In addition, some contributions of this approach to organizational studies were pointed out, emphasizing its philosophical potential for the definition of multi-referential researches. We observe that this dialogue can contribute to the development of organizational studies that incorporate the ontological assumptions of the critical realism and the philosophical foundations of the social constructionist epistemology. Thus, we conclude that the convergences and complementarities between these conceptions may, ultimately, contribute to the configuration of a approach, marked by a realist ontology and a constructionist epistemology that does not reject reality and society as being, at the same time, socially constructed and real, in a dialectical relation between agency and structure that overcomes dichotomies that are still present in both social theory and organizational studies.

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Title
Contribuições do diálogo entre o realismo crítico e o construcionismo social para os estudos organizacionais
Author
Borges, Alex Fernando; de Brito, Mozar José; Brito, Valéria da Glória Pereira; Enoque, Alessandro Gomes
Pages
391-405
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Apr-Jun 2016
Publisher
Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
e-ISSN
16793951
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1791053695
Copyright
Copyright Fundação Getulio Vargas, EBAPE - Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas Apr-Jun 2016