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Ordinary Theorists in Mixed Industries

Roland Calori

Lyon Management School, Ecully, France

In this article, the collective knowledge of practitioners, expressed in narratives and translated into a rigorous form (cognitive maps) is considered as a useful contribution to theory building. The article discusses the epistemic foundations of this pragmatic approach to organization studies, presents a method for analyzing and integrating the knowledge of practitioners, and reports an application in which such collective practical knowledge is compared to mainstream theories of the dynamics of international competition

Key Words: knowledge • theory building • pragmatism • epistemology • reflective practitioners

Organization Studies, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1031-1057 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840600216001
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