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Morrell, Kevin (2012) Evidence-based dialectics. Organization, Vol.19 (No.4). pp. 461-479. doi:10.1177/1350508411414229
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508411414229
Abstract
‘Evidence-based policy’ and ‘evidence-based management’ are increasingly popular ways of describing the relationship between research and practice. The majority discussing the evidence-based approach have tended to be in favour: here, ‘believers’. Yet this approach has also attracted critics: ‘heretics’. Understanding of such a division can be enhanced by dialectics: a process which tries to destabilize, reconcile or transcend apparent opposites. This divide is not simply a consequence of differences relating to epistemology, but also aesthetics: a set of reactions to the world seen as art. So, to analyse this divide requires a correspondingly rich model of dialectic. Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy offers this in its account of Apolline and Dionysian responses to the world. Dialectics supports a move beyond synchronous critique, and allows speculation as to the future development of the evidence-based approach.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > International Centre for Governance & Public Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Organization | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1350-5084 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.19 | ||||
| Number: | No.4 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 461-479 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1350508411414229 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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