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As Vergara and Caldas (2005) observe, illustrious thinkers have contributed to forming mutually exclusive research paradigms, despite having strengthened the continuous search to overcome the dichotomous vision established in this field. Notably, Cunliffe (2011), Burrell and Morgan (1979, 2017), Morgan (1980, 2011), Mir and Mir (2002), Schultz and Hatch (1996), Pfeffer (1995), Morgan and Smircich (1980), Vergara and Caldas (2005) presented a more straightforward and tenuous vision, in order to make this dichotomy more palatable, suggesting the establishment of more permeable boundaries for sub

Based on these assumptions and the perspective of maximizing the growth of the teaching-learning process, this article presents a vision of academic research centered on analyzing the phenomenon and its distinct forms, applying the sense of scaffold and not edifice. Therefore, it intends to encourage reflective practice in academic research approaches, such as the a priori promotion of procedure for a posteriori positioning of philosophical assumptions of their strategies.

This section analyzes the expansion of the organizational research limits developed from the standpoint of a multiparadigmatic profile (SCHULTZ; HATCH, 1996; PFEFFER, 1995; GIOIA; PITRE, 1990). Thus, the research method concentrates with more evidence on the context of broader and more fluid intellectual currents, which for Buchanan and Bryman (2007) encourage a more pragmatic approach. In these terms, Gioia and Pitre (1990) argue in favor of a multiparadigmatic approach as a resource to establish a correspondence between paradigms and efforts towards theoretical construction, as a way of tran

Thus, the research is justified by the essence of establishing analogies about the knowledge, leaning towards the idiosyncrasies of the essence of real agents, so that they are conveying to the world and itself. According to a verse by Antonio Machado, this aspiration converges to: “a distinguir me paro las voces de los ecos, y escucho solamente, entre las voces, uma” (ANCRUGON, 2013). Thus, a sense of stability and direction is demonstrated, while each researcher continues to construct their own building. In other words, insofar as whether individually, or even collectively, progress is made

Thus, it is concluded that researchers should be cautious when deciding on their research methods and be aware of the consequences of positions inherent to selecting their research. For Pasian (2016), researchers should be aware, without explicitly exhibiting their philosophical position, provided they remain within an established tradition and a well-known area of research. Therefore, when they come close to the limits of their area of activity, they need to point out their conscious and appropriate choices. Being aware of their own positions about ontology and epistemology contributes to the

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