
Mats Alvesson
Professor

The closing of critique, pluralism and reflexivity: A response to Hardy and Grant and some wider reflections
Author
Summary, in English
This article is a follow-up of Alvesson and Karreman (2011a), which was in itself a follow-up of Alvesson and Karreman (2000), and a response to a critique of the former by Hardy and Grant (2012). The critique is addressed directly and the logic behind it investigated critically. The article also addresses wider concerns regarding the politics of research and publishing and the conditions of critique at the present time. The pressure and eagerness to get published lead to strong subspecialization and an inclination to build research approaches within which authors are inclined to reproduce shared assumptions and be unwelcome to critical explorations. The article points to the risk of assumption-challenging work being marginalized through the anticipation of critique leading to hostile reactions and specialized, politically motivated reviewers blocking the publication of far-reaching critique.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
1353-1371
Publication/Series
Human Relations
Volume
66
Issue
10
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- discourse analysis
- language
- organization studies
- Pfefferdigms
- politics of publication
- problematization
- theory
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0018-7267