Honing and Framing Ourselves (Extreme Subjectivity and Organizing)

28 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2004

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S.J. Magala

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Date Written: October 2004 9,

Abstract

The present backlash of neo-neopositivism has been academically justified either with a biological or evolutionary ideologies. How did academic intellectuals respond? First, by developing a concept of professional self-identity and institutional peer-control and making it independent of empirical and third-party verification Both these concepts are purely formal and allow for an autonomous self-regulation of a professional community minimizing external influences. Honing ourselves is about the self-reflection of the academic intellectuals who are caught in the networks and hierarchies of the emergent industrial, academic and public organizations Second, by continuous critical re-engineering of the Enlightenment project in the post-communist, post-liberal, complex world on the edge of chaos, in which the retreat of the state and the emergence of complex networks has diminished the role of national culture as the basic frame and blueprint for socialization. Third, by an attempt to form a democratic community of academic citizens. Will a loose collection of researchers and teachers ever rise to the level of principled citizens of a scientific community?

Keywords: framing, subjectivity, evolutionism, self-regulation of professional communities, qualitative research paradigm, democratizing professions

JEL Classification: M, M10, L2, Z1

Suggested Citation

Magala, Slawomir J., Honing and Framing Ourselves (Extreme Subjectivity and Organizing) (October 2004 9,). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=595008

Slawomir J. Magala (Contact Author)

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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