The Christmas Gift: A Story of Dialectics
Organization Studies · 2006 · Volume 27 · Issue 12
Abstract
In this paper I discuss some of the dualities, tensions, and dialectical processes that have been central to my intellectual development, as well as how they have shaped and continue to shape my scholarly contributions. I focus, in particular, on dualities and tensions between my academic and my religious life and between theory and practice. Both sets of tensions play crucial roles in my formulations of organizational change and transformation and in the insider/outsider joint research methodology I have helped to develop. These dualities and tensions were once reconciled in a Christmas gift whose ramifications have unfolded throughout my scholarly career.
Keywords
dialectical processes, theory and practice, organizational change, research methodologies
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