Escaping the Inherent Conservatism of Empirical Organizational Research

Those of us who have uncooperative political convictions and a commitment to doing empirical organization research have a problem: Empirical research in our field trends to be inherently conservative. Presuming that we confine our data collection to Wester, noncommunist, industrial societies, we must study organizational systems that have been shaped by conservative economic ideologies and dominated by a predominantly male managerial class… read moreopen in new window