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Evaluating Organizational Change: The Role of Ontology and Epistemology

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2003
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dc.abstract.plThe evaluation of organizational change is a thorny issue. Firstly, accurate data depicting the organization's response to a change process are very difficult to collect, and the process can be corrupted by the Macnamara Fallacy. Secondly, the evaluative conclusions derived from the data are complex high-inference chains of reasoning based on implicit, taken-for-granted beliefs and values. Specifically, ontological and epistemological paradigms broadly determine the context for the conclusions of the evaluative inference, even though they are rarely made explicit. This paper presents two sets of ontological and epistemological paradigms; one set is modernist, and the other is postmodernist. It then applies them to organizational change data to demonstrate the divergent evaluations that can be constructed.
dc.contributor.affiliationSchool of Education, The University of Queensland
dc.contributor.affiliationGraduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
dc.contributor.affiliationSchool of Education, The University of Queensland
dc.contributor.authorJim Butler
dc.contributor.authorFiona Scott
dc.contributor.authorJohn Edwards
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:47:16Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:47:16Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.published2003
dc.description.issue2
dc.description.physical55-67
dc.description.volume2
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3083
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages55-67
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectorganizational change
dc.subjectorganizational structure
dc.subjectpersonnel changes
dc.subjectmanagement' postmodernism
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

Evaluating Organizational Change: The Role of Ontology and Epistemology

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