Phronetic organization research

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Phronetic organization research is phronetic social science employed in the specific study of organizations and management. Phronetic social science is an approach to the study of social phenomena based on a contemporary interpretation of the classical Greek concept phronesis, variously translated as practical judgment, common sense, or prudence. Phronetic organization researchers study organizations and management with a focus on values and power. Researchers ask and answer the following four value-rational questions for specific instances of organization and management:

  1. Where are we going?
  2. Is this development desirable?
  3. Who gains and who loses, and by which mechanisms of power?
  4. What, if anything, should we do about it?

[edit] Sources and further reading

Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2006. "Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values and Phronesis." In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas Lawrence, and Walter Nord, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies. Second edition (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).

Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2001. Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again (Cambridge University Press)

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