Organizational Theory and Inquiry

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.

Introduction - Yvonna S Lincoln The Context of the Paradigmatic Shift Emerging Paradigms in Organizational Theory and Research - David L Clark The Context of Emergent Paradigm Research - Egon G Guba The Concepts of the Paradigmatic Shift Sources of Order in Unorganized Systems: Themes in Recent Organizational Theory - Karl E Weick The Substance of the Emergent Paradigm: Implications for Researchers - Yvonna S Lincoln Applications in the Practice of Research Managerial Implications of the Emerging Paradigm - Anne Sigismund Huff Doing Naturalistic Research into Educational Organizations - Thomas M Skritic Epilogue: Dictionaries for Languages Not Yet Spoken - Yvonna S Lincoln