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Portrait of Mats Alvesson. Photo.

Mats Alvesson

Professor

Portrait of Mats Alvesson. Photo.

Reflecting on reflexivity: Reflexive textual practices in organization and management theory

Author

  • Mats Alvesson
  • Cynthia Hardy
  • Bill Harley

Summary, in English

This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi-perspective, multi-voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practices to develop ideas for new avenues for reflexive practice by OMT researchers.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

480-501

Publication/Series

Journal of Management Studies

Volume

45

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Business Administration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-6486