ORGANIZATION STUDIES AS A SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC ENTERPRISE - TOWARD A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD

Recent critiques of social science have emphasized their ties to the c oncerns of academic disciplines usually labelled as humanities. Buildi ng on this literature, this paper argues that organizational studies m ust be reconfigured as science and humanities. Substantive examples ar e drawn from the links of organizational theory to history, the use of semiotics, rhetorical analysis and narrative approaches to policy cho ices. Reconfiguring the field also has implications for applied work l eading to an enlightenment model.