Rethinking the philosophical and theoretical foundations of organizational neuroscience: A critical realist alternative

Stimulated by the growing use of brain imaging and related neurophysiological techniques in psychology and economics, scholars have begun to debate the implications of neuroscience for management and organization studies (MOS). Currently, this debate is polarizing scholarly opinion. At one extreme,...

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Published in:Human relations (New York) Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 765 - 792
Main Authors: Healey, Mark P, Hodgkinson, Gerard P
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2014
Sage Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Brain
Cognition
Critical realism
Debates
Discourse
Ethics
Foundations
Human relations
Leadership
Management
Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
Organization studies
Organizational behavior
Philosophy of science
Psychology
Realism
Reductionism
Sociology
Sociology of organizations and enterprises. Bureaucracy and administration
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Studies
reductionism
neuroeconomics
philosophy of science
quality of inferences
behavioural microfoundations
leadership
Neuroscience
Philosophy of Science
Sociology of organizations
Economic behavior
Cognition
Criticism
Reductionism
ISSN:0018-7267, 1741-282X
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Summary:Stimulated by the growing use of brain imaging and related neurophysiological techniques in psychology and economics, scholars have begun to debate the implications of neuroscience for management and organization studies (MOS). Currently, this debate is polarizing scholarly opinion. At one extreme, advocates are calling for a new neuroscience of organizations, which they claim will revolutionize understanding of a wide range of key processes, with significant implications for management practice. At the other extreme, detractors are decrying the relevance of neuroscience for MOS, primarily on philosophical and ethical grounds. The present article progresses this debate by outlining an intermediate, critical realist position, in which the insights of social neuroscience are one of a number of convergent building blocks that together point toward the need for a more embodied and socially situated view of cognition in management and organizations.
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ISSN:0018-7267
1741-282X
DOI:10.1177/0018726714530014