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Critical Systemic Thinking – or The Standard Engineer in Paris

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Author

  • Peter Bednar
  • Christine Welch

Editor

  • Dan Remenyi
  • Ann Brown

Summary, in English

In wanting to pursue critically informed research, we highlight a steppingstone we use in our struggle answering the question ‘How do we recognize what to critically reflect upon?’. When we, as researchers, try to apply critical thinking we may find that our descriptions of our reasoning undermine the purpose for those descriptions. We perceive problems to flow from an entrapment of mind in the ‘fallacity’ / fallibility of everyday common sense reasoning, leading to detaching of particular observations we make from ‘us’ as particular observers. For us as researchers and analysts to be able to critically reflect upon any taken-for-granted assumptions we first need to recognize at least some of these assumptions. The authors of this paper see an opportunity in reflecting on ‘The Standard Engineer in Paris’ to highlight some fundamental entrapment of mind. This may offer us a step towards an escape route from some restrictive assumptions.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

29-36

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Academic Conferences

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • Critical Systemic Thinking
  • Organisational Analysis.
  • Hermeneutic Dialectics
  • Contextual Dependency

Conference name

ECRM2005: 4th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management

Conference date

2005-04-21 - 2005-04-22

Conference place

Paris:, France

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 09547096-8-3