Perspectives

From Rise

Looking at many important open research issues in the areas of strategic entrepreneurship and management, it is evident that it is very important to engage in a careful discussion and analysis of the often implicit epistemological and theoretical premises, conceptual foundations and methodological implications underlying any disciplined and robust research endeavor. RISE Management Research understands itself as a research initiative, which explicitly focuses on the epistemological and theoretical premises of its research activities, as well as on the major resulting methodological and empirical implications. In particular, we build on theoretical perspectives and research approaches from the following research programs in the social sciences:

Science & Technology Studies

• Bijker, W. E.: “Of Bycicles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change:”, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.***
• Bijker, W. E., Law, J.: “Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change”, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
• Galison, P.: “Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics”, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• Hughes, T. P., W. E. Bijker & T. Pinch: “Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology”, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
• Knorr-Cetina, F.: “Die Fabrikation der Erkenntnis”, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1984.***
• Knorr-Cetina, F.: “Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.***
• Latour, B.: “Science in Action - How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Action Theory

• Joas, H.: “Die Kreativität des Handelns”, (2 ed.).,Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1996.***
• Joas, H.: “Die Entstehung der Werte”,Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1997.
• Pfeifer, R., Bongard, J., Grand, S.: “How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence”, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
• Putnam, H.: “Pragmatism: An Open Question”, London: Blackwell, 1995.
• Strauss, A. L.: “Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.***
• Weber, M.: “Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft”, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005 (1922).

Practice Theory

• Bourdieu, P.: “Outline of a Theory of Practice”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.***
• de Certeau, M.: “Kunst des Handelns”, Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1988.
• Foucault, M.: “Les mots et les choses”, Paris: Gallimard, 1966.
• Foucault, M.: “L’ordre du discourse”, Paris: Gallimard, 1971.***
• Foucault, M.: “The Archeology of Knowledge”, New York: Random House, 2002 (1972).
• Pickering, A.: “The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science”, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• Schatzki, T. R., Knorr-Cetina, F. von Savigny, E.: “The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory”, London: Routledge, 2002.***
• Turner, S. P.: “The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions”, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Institutional Theory

• Powell, W. W., DiMaggio, P. J.: “The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis”, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Convention Theory

• Gomez, P. Y.: “Le gouvernement de l'entreprise: Modèles économiques de l'entreprise et pratiques de gestion”, Paris: InterEditions, 1996.***
• Gomez, P. Y., Jones, B. C.: “Conventions: An Interpretation of Deep Structure in Organizations”, Organization Science, 11, 696-708, 2000.***
• Thévenot, L., Boltanski, L.: “De la justification. Les économies de la grandeur”, Paris: Gallimard, 1991.
• Thévenot, L.: “L’action au pluriel: sociologie des régimes d’engagement”, Paris: La Découverte, 2006.***

Actor Network Theory

• Callon, M.: “Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay”, in J. Law (Ed.), Power, Action and Belief: A new Sociology of Knowledge?, London: Routledge, 196-223, 1986.***
• Callon, M.: “Actor Network Theory – The Market Test”, in J. Law, J. Hassard (Eds.), Actor Network Theory and After, London: Blackwell Publishers, 181-196, 1999.
• Latour, B.: “Nous n’avons jamais été modernes”, Paris: La Découverte, 1991.
• Latour, B.: “Le Métier de Chercheur, Regard d’un Anthropologue”, Paris: INRA Collection Sciences en Questions, 1995.
• Law, J., Hassard, J.: “Actor Network Theory and After”, London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
• Latour, B.: “On Recalling ANT”, in J. Law, J. Hassard (Eds.), Actor Network Theory and After, London: Blackwell Publishers, 15-26, 1999.
• Latour, B.: “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.***
• Law, J.: “After ANT: Complexity, Naming and Topology”, in Law, J., Hassard, J. (Eds.), Actor Network Theory and After, London: Blackwell Publishers, 1-15, 1999.

Epistemology

• Elkana, Y.: “Anthropologie der Erkenntnis”, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1985
• Fleck, L.: “Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv”, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1980.***
• Hacking, I.: “Was heißt "soziale Konstruktion"?”, Frankfurt: Fischer, 1999
• Lakatos, I.: “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.***