Rationality as an Organizational Product

Abstract

RATIONALITY AS AN ORGANIZATIONALPRODUCTAdministrative Studies, vol 11(1992): 3, 152-162A perspective which conceptualizes organizingas a process of reality construction reveals a possibility of considering rationality not as an organizational attribute but as an organizationalproduct. The focus of organizational studiesshould then shift from examination of rationalityto interpretation of its production. It is arguedthat such a shift would be followed by a changein researchers' main roles: from simplifying andlegitimizing to problematizing and unmasking

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