A Critical Theory of Organization Science

Conducting and Evaluating Critical Interpretive Research: Examining Criteria as a Key Component in Building a Research Tradition

“…Regarding critical theory, its foundations are often associated with two distinct schools of critical theory: the Frankfurt School of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Fromm; and the contemporary critical theory of Habermas. Although these two approaches differ, the differences are seen as subtle (Steffy and Grimes 1986).…”

Mainstream Accounting and Its Paradigm: A Critical Analysis

“…Individuals are seen as passive persons who do not construct the reality but they are simply analyzed as entities that are passively described in objective ways. In other words, a human is seen as a passive receptor of discrete, atomic impressions from the outside (Steffy and Grimes 1986).…”

Critical Management Studies in the South African context

“…Steffy and Grimes (1986) make the following observation in this regard: [It] should be noted, however, that the interpretive position may be as suspect as the empirical-analytic position, both in terms of its criticisms of the natural science approach and in the adequacy of its own methods. (p. 323) The radical emergence paradigm is premised on the value of subjectivity and meaning in human life, and despite the fact that capturing the technological effects of connectivity is also associated with the radical verificationist paradigm, it is quintessentially humanist.…”