An Introduction to Hermeneutics in Understanding Organization and Management

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In this article it is attempted to explain some of the methodological origins of management. Meanwhile, by segregation of the theoretical and hermeneutical worlds, it is attempted to distinguish the different methodological paradigms of each field, in management. Then, with respect to Molla Sadra's methodological and epistemological basis, a third framework for discussion of  modern methodological origins for understanding organization and management is introduced. Based on this, with a comparison approach, the issue of understanding and recognition in view of hermeneutic and Islamic philosophers is discussed.
In this way, Molla Sadra's theory of unification of subject and object is considered as the core of discussions of Islamic epistemology. Finally, the researchers study metaphor as the most powerful means of hermeneutists in process of obtaining and transmitting meaning.

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