Abstract
Our study addresses the cognitive dynamics of knowledge change in organization studies (OS). Drawing on extensive research on the cognitive processes underlying artistic change, we extend that knowledge to explain how changes in the thinking that OS researchers use to produce knowledge contribute to predictable changes in that knowledge over time. We used this cognitive framework to analyze changes in OS knowledge over the past 50 years, the period when contemporary OS developed into an identifiable academic field. This involved a textual analysis of articles appearing in three of the field’s premier journals from 1956 to 2008: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly. These data provided indirect measures of the thought processes that OS researchers used to create this knowledge. The results are largely consistent with the cognitive framework guiding our study. They tell a cognitive story of how the OS field’s knowledge changed over the last half o...
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