See secont on icon, index, symbol. Recall that logical deduction seeks to verify a priori formal theory, while induction or grounded theory focuses on generating theory from in situ observations. Kepler shows his keen logical sense in detailing the whole process by which he finally arrived at the true orbit. Contextualism - For Pepper, contextualism is the historic event in the present. Events are to be explained within the context of their occurrence.
Organizational life is complex, with interconnected events and continuously changing patterns.
Paper for presentation to the Ohio Discourse Conference. Machine metaphors have been popular in OT since the industrial revolution. Each technology becomes a discourse to read and fashion organizations, from Frederick Taylor s scientific management to more recent machine models of TQM, and reengineering. Contingency theory sought to appropriate mechanistic and organic into yet another formalism. I need to stress that using an organic metaphor does not read life into story.