Keeping the tension: Pressures to keep the controversy in the management discipline

Management journals often contain heated discussions about disciplinary app roaches, or how and whether to legitimate different kinds of research. I cl assify nine such approaches in a typology. These varied approaches arise be cause none can fully accommodate the conflicting scientific and pragmatic p ressures placed on academic research. The airing of these views, however, h elps members of the discipline meet their responsibility to re-evaluate the value of existing research and new currents in an ongoing fashion.