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标题：Discourse analysis and complex adaptive systems: Managing variables with attitudes
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作者：Charl Walters ; Roy Williams
期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods
印刷版ISSN：1477-7029
电子版ISSN：1477-7029
出版年度：2003
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：61-68
出版社：Academic Conferences International Limited
摘要：There have been long‑standing debates about the relative values of quantitative vs. qualitative research, and of positivism vs. critical theory in management studies. In this paper we discuss the value of discourse theory and the tools of discourse analysis in the context of complex adaptive systems theory, which can usefully be seen as a synthesis of the thesis of modernism and the antithesis of post‑modernism. Discourse' has been developed and used in several disciplines, to interesting effect. It is now time to systematise the notion of discourse, and the tools of discourse analysis, both theoretically and practically, so that they can better be applied to management research, and to management practice.
关键词：Discourse; modernism; post-modernism; complex adaptive systems; communities of practice