Abstract
Competition between modernism and postmodernism has not been fruitful, and management researchers are divided in their preference, thereby undermining the legitimacy of truth claims in the field as a whole. Drawing on Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety on complexity science, and in particular on power-law-distributed phenomena, we show how the order-seeking regime of the modernists and the richness-seeking regime of the postmodernists draw on different ontological assumptions that can be integrated within a single overarching framework.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 415-433 |
| Journal | Academy of Management Review |
| Volume | 35 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |