Investigated the potential existence and formation of subcultures in organizations, using an inductive research methodology to show how four different types of knowledge were shared by organization members. Numerous cultural subgroupings were found to exist regarding two kinds of cultural knowledge, and an organizationwide cultural overlay was…

Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…