BEYOND TACIT KNOWLEDGE: ΗOW MICHAEL POLANYI’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE ILLUMINATES THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH

IF 19.3 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Academy of Management Review Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI:10.5465/amr.2022.0289

Demetris Hadjimichael, Igor Pyrko, Haridimos Tsoukas

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In this essay, we present Michael Polanyi’s theory of knowledge and outline its implications for theory development in organizational research. While Polanyi is best known in the field for his concept of tacit knowledge, we discuss here several other cognate concepts Polanyi has also introduced, notably: conviviality, indwelling, tradition and lore, coherence, and post-critical reason, and show how they help us better understand organizational theorizing. Specifically, we argue the following. First, when engaged in theory creation, organizational scholars integrate largely unspecifiable particulars, in search of deepening coherence, by dwelling in a fiduciary framework of previous theory, others’ narrativized experiences, and their own personal experiences. Secondly, driven by intellectual passions and commitments, organizational scholars bring about conceptual novelty by seeking to redirect intellectual attention to hitherto tacitly accepted subsidiary particulars, which they seek to re-integrate in novel ways. And thirdly, since all knowledge, no matter how abstract, necessarily involves skilful action, organizational scholars dwell in scientific practice and, therefore, interiorize – that is, they become subsidiarily aware of - the practice’s collective purpose, which they freely and responsibly enact through the exercise of public liberty.

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在这篇文章中，我们介绍了迈克尔·波兰尼的知识理论，并概述了它对组织研究理论发展的影响。虽然波兰尼在该领域最著名的是他的隐性知识概念，但我们在这里讨论波兰尼也引入的其他几个同源概念，特别是:欢愉、内住、传统与爱、连贯和后批判理性，并展示它们如何帮助我们更好地理解组织理论化。具体来说，我们的论点如下。首先，当从事理论创造时，组织学者通过居住在先前理论，他人叙述经验和自己个人经验的信托框架中，将大部分无法确定的细节整合在一起，以寻求深化的连贯性。其次，在知识激情和承诺的驱动下，组织学者通过寻求将知识分子的注意力转移到迄今为止默认的附属细节上，从而带来概念上的新颖性，他们寻求以新颖的方式重新整合这些细节。第三，因为所有的知识，无论多么抽象，都必然涉及到有技巧的行动，所以组织学者居住在科学实践中，因此，内化——也就是说，他们变得辅助地意识到——实践的集体目的，他们通过行使公共自由，自由地、负责任地制定这些目的。

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