Year
2016
Abstract
The theory/practice dichotomy, so common in academic and managerial worlds, is irrelevant and misleading. It conceals the actual practices of so-called “theoreticians” (e.g. scholars) and the theories tacitly elaborated by “practitioners” (e.g. managers). Theory and practice are two inseparable dimensions of any inquiry process, in the pragmatist definition of “inquiry”, as illustrated by examples drawn from the history of “lean management”.
LORINO, P. (2016). De Sherlock Holmes au Lean Management : théorie et pratique, deux dimensions inséparables de l’enquête. Dans: À la pointe du management. 1st ed. Dunod.