This paper introduces the realist concept of science to defend and advance the critique of positivist organization theory in the face of Donaldson's counter- critique, and to rescue Foucault from the obscurity of postmodernist interpret ations, thereby establishing his significance as a guide to organizational ethno graphy.
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