Management theory: a fragmented and multifaceted field

• Autores: Juan Omar Agüero
• Localización: Visión de futuro, ISSN-e 1668-8708, ISSN 1669-7634, Vol. 7, Nº. 1, 2007, págs. 63-92
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article there is exposed in very summarized way, the epistemological problematic of the organizational studies and the paradigms and main theories starting off from which a diversity of authors have formulated during XX century a series of focuses, concepts, categories and descriptive, explanatory and interpretive models of the organizational phenomenon. This has generated a great fragmentation of the field, but it has also enriched the debate with a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives that, sometimes complementarily and other times contradictorily, provide a complex and multifaceted look of the organizations that cannot be reduced to a single paradigm and much less still to a single theory