Perez, A. y Guzman, M. 2015. Los estudios organizacionales como programa de investigacion. Cinta moebio 53: 104-123

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Organizational studies as a research programme

Dr. Augusto Pérez (renatomayo@hotmail.com) Facultad de Contaduría, Administración e Informática, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Cuernavaca, México)

Dra. Maricela Guzmán (mari68mx@yahoo.com.mx) Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Distrito Federal, México)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to argue for the epistemic distinction of organisational studies, which have an object of study, a research methodology and a developed theory. Also the peculiarity of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary that characterize them when it comes to understand and intervene in organisations. It is discussed links and complementarities with management science and other social sciences, raising the need to provide an organisational studies epistemic identity through the foundation of its philosophical, methodological and theoretical principles by creating a research programme from the perspective of Imre Lakatos.

Keywords: organizational theory, organizational studies, epistemology, research program, epistemic identity.