CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article
Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociological Theory
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1646745
This article is part of the Research TopicRecognition and Critical Social ResearchView all articles
New ways in critical management and organization studies: Honneth and the method of normative reconstruction
Provisionally accepted
- 1Institute for Management Research, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- 2Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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While current global ecological, social and cultural challenges and the role of organizations therein call for involvement of critical management studies, critical scholars have been divided over how to engage with organizational practice and practitioners. In order to move this issue forward, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach to critical analysis in the form of the method of normative reconstruction of the Frankfurt social philosopher Axel Honneth. Towards that purpose, the basic tenets of this method of normative reconstruction are discussed and empirically illustrated through two cases, while the paper ends with conclusions and discussion.
Keywords: Axel Honneth, Recognition Theory, Normative reconstruction, Critical Theory, CMS
Received: 13 Jun 2025; Accepted: 24 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Max Visser, Institute for Management Research, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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