Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games [electronic resource] : Toward a Radical Constructivist Process Perspective /
Djurić, Dragan.author.
Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’. Contents Strategy Tools Process Philosophy Philosophy of Management Process Organization Studies  Target Groups Researchers in the fields of Philosophy of Management and Process Organization Studies Professionals widening their intellectual scope The Author Dr. Dragan Djurić conducted his doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Max J. Ringlstetter, Professor of Business Administration, Organization Theory, and HRM at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.
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Foreword; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction and Research Motivation; 1.1 Decision-Making and Strategy Tools; 1.2 Traditional Research: Strategy Tools as Technologies of Rationality; 1.3 Practice-based Research: Strategy Tools as Boundary Objects; 1.4 Chapter Summary and Further Proceedings: Proposal for a New Perspective; 1.4.1 Practice-based Research: Interest in Meaning Construction, Interactions, and the Unfolding of Decisions; 1.4.2 Traditional Research: The Need for Process Vocabulary
1.4.3 The New Perspective: Process Philosophy and Its OMT Manifestation - The Process Organization Studies (PROS) Discourse1.4.4 The Dissertation Agenda - Three Primary Goals; 2 Twisting the Familiar: Philosophical Underpinnings in Management Research; 2.1 Ontology: From Metaphysics of Substance to Process-Metaphysics; 2.1.1 On Parmenides' Static Ontology of Being; 2.1.2 On Heraclites' Processual Ontology of Becoming; 2.1.3 Subchapter Summary: Toward a Radical Constructivist Process Perspective; 2.2 Epistemology & Methodology: From Realist/Positivist Theory to Constructivist Theorizing
2.2.1 Central Topics in Epistemology2.2.2 Substantialist Empiricism vs. Radical Constructivist Process Epistemology; 2.2.3 Research Methodology: Theory vs. Theorizing; 2.2.4 Subchapter Summary: Transliterative Theorizing in Radical Constructivist Process Thought; 2.3 Praxeology: From Substantialist Instrumentalism to Poetic Praxeology; 2.3.1 Management Theorizing as Engineering: Instrumental Praxeology and Aboutness-Thinking in OMT; 2.3.2 Management Theorizing as Art: Poetic Praxeology and Process Philosophical Withness-Thinking
2.3.3 Subchapter Summary: Seeing through / Thinking with the Poetic Image of Language Games2.4 Constructing from Within the Flux of Life: Language Games & Symbolic Interactions; 2.4.1 Subchapter Overview: Process, Pragmatism, and Wittgenstein's Duality; 2.4.2 Resolving Dualisms by Deconstructing Dualities: On Words and Meanings, and Process and Stability; 2.4.3 Language Games & Symbolic Interactionism: On the Pragmatist Theory of Meaning; 2.4.4 Subchapter Summary: Reality Construction in Language Games and Meaning Enactment through Symbolic Interactions
2.5 Chapter Summary: The Twist of Onto-Epistemological Premises and its Consequences2.5.1 Key Points of Chapter 2; 2.5.2 Contribution of Chapter 2 to the Goals of the Dissertation; 3 Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games; 3.1 Scientific and Managerial Language Games; 3.1.1 The Scientific Language Game; 3.1.2 The Managerial Language Game; 3.2 From the Scientific to the Managerial Language Game: Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects; 3.2.1 Scientists as Ontological Educators; 3.2.2 Managing as Interpreting
3.3 From Decision to Incision: Toward a Radical Constructivist Process Account
PhD Thesis, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, 2015.
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Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’. Contents Strategy Tools Process Philosophy Philosophy of Management Process Organization Studies  Target Groups Researchers in the fields of Philosophy of Management and Process Organization Studies Professionals widening their intellectual scope The Author Dr. Dragan Djurić conducted his doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Max J. Ringlstetter, Professor of Business Administration, Organization Theory, and HRM at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.
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Business Strategy/Leadership.