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'COPE'ing with institutional pressures: a reintroduction of pragmatism to the study of organisations

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  • Thomas G. Pittz
  • David M. Boje
  • Melissa L. Intindola
  • Stephanie Nicholson

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Recent organisational scholarship has begun to rekindle an interest in the study of pragmatism and our goal in this manuscript is to demonstrate that pragmatist thought has important implications for organisational studies that have been overlooked due to contention over nuances of the theory. As such, we propose a synthesis of pragmatism through the COPE typology (Boje, 2014) that represents our view of the four main tenants of pragmatism: critical, ontological, positivistic and epistemic. Further, we utilise COPE by applying it to the question of organisational heterogeneity within institutional theory. In doing so, this manuscript makes important contributions to the study of pragmatism and institutional theory while providing new insights to predict how internal organisational processes are developed and how organisations respond to environmental pressures.

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  • Thomas G. Pittz & David M. Boje & Melissa L. Intindola & Stephanie Nicholson, 2017. "'COPE'ing with institutional pressures: a reintroduction of pragmatism to the study of organisations," International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(2), pages 113-129.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcph:v:10:y:2017:i:2:p:113-129
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    Cited by:

    1. François-Xavier de Vaujany, 2018. "Legitimation process in organizations and organizing: An ontological discussion," Post-Print halshs-01840927, HAL.
    2. François-Xavier de Vaujany, 2018. "Legitimation process in organizations and organizing: An ontological discussion 1," Post-Print halshs-01868090, HAL.
    3. François-Xavier de Vaujany & Sara Winterstorm Varlander & Emmanuelle Vaast, 2018. "At the intersection of materiality, organizational legitimacy and institutional logics: A study of campus tours 1," Post-Print halshs-01840928, HAL.

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