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In recent years a growing population of researchers has approached organizational studies from process theory perspectives (Helin et al. 2014). Researchers working from the insights of process philosophy emphasize the temporal‑relational and emergent nature of organizational life. This is often explicitly opposed to Cartesian/Newtonian world views (Shotter 2015) and to the tendency to reify organizational ‘units’, ‘structures’ and ‘levels’ described as stemming from the ‘systems theory’‑thinking that have dominated and organized our knowledge of organizational life for decades (Stacey 2010; 2011).
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Revsbæk, L. (2016). Making methodology a matter of process ontology. In: Göhlich, M., Weber, S., Schröer, A., Schemmann, M. (eds) Organisation und Methode. Organisation und Pädagogik, vol 19. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13299-6_5
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