On Sustaining Research Agendas: Their Moral and Scientific Basis ^☆

Hirsch, P. M., Baol, K. B., & Lancaster, R. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 276, © 2000 by SAGE Publications, Inc.; Selznick, P. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 277–282, © 2000 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications, Inc.

Abstract

On the fiftieth anniversary of TVA and the Grass Roots’ publication, Selznick reviewed his and the book’s career in a talk at the Western Academy Management. He emphasized the dangers of separating organizational means from moral ends and of allowing cooptation to compromise too many of an organization’s positive goals. Selznick noted similarities between his works and the later perspective of new institutional theory and concluded by urging organizational researchers to focus more on integrity and corporate responsibility.

Citation

Selznick, P. (2015), "On Sustaining Research Agendas: Their Moral and Scientific Basis ^☆

Hirsch, P. M., Baol, K. B., & Lancaster, R. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 276, © 2000 by SAGE Publications, Inc.; Selznick, P. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 277–282, © 2000 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications, Inc.

", Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick’s Legacy for Organizational Studies (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 44), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000044002