A MULTIPLE PARADIGM APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL

Abstract

The literature on the nature of organizational control processes is dominated by the four broad perspectives of cybernetics/goal, power/authority, culture, and evolution. Arguing against subscribing to any individual perspective, this paper proposes a multiple paradigm perspective, employing the three sociological paradigms of social factism, social behaviorism, and social definitionism. This multi‐perspective approach is then applied to an evolutionary conception of organizational control.

Citation

Das, T.K. (1993), "A MULTIPLE PARADIGM APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL", The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028797