{"title":"Theorizing as scholarly meaning-making practice: The value of a pragmatist theory of theorizing","authors":"Alexander Styhre","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2022.101215","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Theorizing is widely recognized as a key activity or process in scholarly research work. In many cases, theorizing is assumed to be part of the scholar’s analytical capacity, but there is a shortage of comprehensive explanations for <em>how</em> theorizing as practice actually generates the intersubjective meaning that is the primary purpose of using theory to describe and explain the empirical material. Drawing on pragmatist analytical philosophy and the idea that meaning is intersubjectively constituted within the semantics of everyday language, being accessible to all humans sharing a language, this article formulates a theory of theorizing that does not stop with the affirmative account that theorizing is a process that is contingent on personal beliefs and preferences. A theory of theorizing needs to provide a plausible ground for how empirical materials are described on basis of vocabularies that gradually shift from being more closely related to an everyday use of vernacular language, to more technically oriented descriptions that include theoretical concepts and categories. Based on these premises, preferably to be further developed, a theory of theorizing that demystifies how theory is introduced when analyzing empirical data is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522122000227/pdfft?md5=70f9e0fcd70405efe65b063bfcec2596&pid=1-s2.0-S0956522122000227-main.pdf","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522122000227","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Theorizing is widely recognized as a key activity or process in scholarly research work. In many cases, theorizing is assumed to be part of the scholar’s analytical capacity, but there is a shortage of comprehensive explanations for how theorizing as practice actually generates the intersubjective meaning that is the primary purpose of using theory to describe and explain the empirical material. Drawing on pragmatist analytical philosophy and the idea that meaning is intersubjectively constituted within the semantics of everyday language, being accessible to all humans sharing a language, this article formulates a theory of theorizing that does not stop with the affirmative account that theorizing is a process that is contingent on personal beliefs and preferences. A theory of theorizing needs to provide a plausible ground for how empirical materials are described on basis of vocabularies that gradually shift from being more closely related to an everyday use of vernacular language, to more technically oriented descriptions that include theoretical concepts and categories. Based on these premises, preferably to be further developed, a theory of theorizing that demystifies how theory is introduced when analyzing empirical data is presented.
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The Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) provides an international forum for innovative and carefully crafted research on different aspects of management. We promote dialogue and new thinking around theory and practice, based on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. We have a passion for empirical inquiry. We promote constructive dialogue among researchers as well as between researchers and practitioners. We encourage new approaches to the study of management and we aim to foster new thinking around management theory and practice. We publish original empirical and theoretical material, which contributes to understanding management in private and public organizations. Full-length articles and book reviews form the core of the journal, but focused discussion-type texts (around 3.000-5.000 words), empirically or theoretically oriented, can also be considered for publication. The Scandinavian Journal of Management is open to different research approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. We are open to different fields of management application, but narrow technical discussions relevant only to specific sub-fields will not be given priority.
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