Article Review on Management Culture

The analysis reveals that Parker (1995) positioned his case study within the ontological and epistemological perspectives while employing a methodology that was qualitative and exploratory in nature. The study reveals that Parker (1995) found that his target organization was comprised of many different cultural groups each of which understood and responded to the introduction of new technologies from a subjectivist rather than a universalist posture.

The essay offers criticisms focused not on Parker's (1995) philosophical perspective or conclusions, but rather on his choice of methodology. It concludes that while Parker (1995) contributed to an understanding of how cultural sociology in practice and in research can be addressed, his findings would be of greater value had they been based upon an empirical or quantitative research strategy.

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(2002) has noted, ethnographic research of this type is particularly useful in the study of culture and moves toward a comprehensive cultural sociology. The research may be shaped and informed by a subjectivist approach derived from assumptions advanced by Smircich (1983), but such assumptions could also have been used in a quantitative research design. Thus, the difference between philosophical perspectives and methodological procedures is the difference between focus and goals and theory on the one hand and strategy and technique on the other. Summary of the Research Paper Parker's (1995) research begins with an introduction that identifies his case study as having been conducted in a manufacturing firm in the United Kingdom with the objective of exploring the sociological utility of the formulation (organizational/corporate culture). The introduction establishes Parker's (1995) conviction that culture should not be a priori conceptualized as a unified whole while recognizing that culture is something that an organization is and not something that it has. Parker's (1995) goal positioned the study of culture as an attempt to understand the significant factions and alliances within the management of an organization by using
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