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In recent years it has become more and more widely accepted that, to properly understand any phenomenon in the field of organizational behaviour, it is beneficial to examine it from the point of view of more than one theoretical perspective. Each perspective is based on a different set of assumptions and has both strenghts and weaknesses embedded in it — directing attention toward one definition and analysis of the phenomenon and away from others.
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Murray, V.V., Bradshaw-Camball, P. (1993). Temptations and Dilemmas in the Interpretive Perspective on Organizational Politics. In: Dlugos, G., Dorow, W., Farrell, D. (eds) Organizational Politics. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89832-6_3
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