This volume in the Research in Organizational Sciences series is
entitled Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth and Boundary Conditions
in Organizational Studies. Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to
people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources
of human knowledge. Authority refers to the acceptance of knowledge
as truth because of the position and credibility of the knowledge
source. Tenacity refers to the continued presentation of a
particular bit of information by a source until this bit of
information is accepted as true by receivers. The problem for
organisational studies, however, is that this received wisdom often
becomes unquestioned assumptions which guide interpretation of the
world and decisions made about the world. Received wisdom,
therefore, may lead to organisational practices which provide
little or no benefit to the organisation and, potentially, negative
organisational effects, because this received wisdom is no longer
valid. The 14 papers in this volume all, in some way, strive to
question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our
understanding of organisational behaviour in some way. The chapters
in this volume each strive to present new ways of understanding
organisational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received
wisdom has often led to confirmation bias in organisational
science. The knowledge that some perceived truths are actually the
products of received wisdom and do not stand up to close scrutiny
shakes up things within research areas previously thought settled
allowing new perspectives on organisational science to emerge.
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