Twisting the Familiar: Philosophical Underpinnings in Management Research

As indicated in the introduction, every research effort inevitably builds on a set of basic assumptions. These assumptions shall be discussed and rendered visible in this chapter in order for readers to understand the worldviews of the traditional and the practice-based discourse as well as the author’s course of writing. This is considered especially valuable in this particular piece of work which, maybe somewhat unusual when compared to mainstream OMT dissertations, does not aim for preaching solutions but rather tries to challenge (or at least open up for discussion in a deconstructivist sense) some contemporary preconceptions. In this sense, it is not about a search for definitive answers but rather aims at evoking further questions in the reader.