2018 Volume 7 Issue 2 Pages 489-494
In the organizational science, it is necessary to approach the complexity of the object of organization by an interdisciplinary approach such as business administration and sociology. However, has recent "organizational science" been able to play its function appropriately? In this paper, we focus on "organizational culture" as a point where business administration and sociology "reunite" and return to the fundamental question, "what is organization", again. Organizational culture studies are is filled with diversity similarly to organizational studies. It has been shared between researchers of organizations that diversity of organizational research was clarified by the research of G. Burrell & G. Morgan in 1979. However, they crossed the two dimensions of subjective-objective, regulation-radical change, suggesting that subjective and radical change organization studies were still in a germinating stage. Despite the potentiality in a name of "anti-organization theory", they pointed out that the subjective and radical change-oriented research indicated that it was not found at all in organizational research based on sociology back then. In this paper, possible organizational culture studies are clarified while reconfirming significance of their schema. For that purpose, we refer to the concept of cultural dopes advocated by Critical management studies(CMS).
