Abstract
Donizete AntunesRecent polemics on both sides of the Atlantic attest to the contentiouslypolitical nature of management research (cf. Grey, 2001; O’Connor, 1999;Pettigrew, 2001; Pfeffer, 1993, 1995; Starkey & Madan, 2001; Tranfield S Van Maanen, 1995a,b; Weick, 2001). Management theoreti-cians as well as funding agents, practitioners and consultants are increas-ingly debating the usefulness and validity of management knowledge(Powell, 1997). While each of these groups may have quite different per-spectives and biases, despite the polemic nature of the exchange one needsto accept that various stakeholders claim to possess management knowl-edge (Abrahamson, 1996; Antunes, 2002).This chapter emphasizes a
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