Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon
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interested in the research. In these different communities different sets for the quality<br />
of research are used, accordingly the use of findings from a complex resp<strong>on</strong>sive process-perspective<br />
will be assessed from difference viewpoints. Briefly I explore some<br />
possibilities.<br />
A positivistic community<br />
For the mainstream, <strong>on</strong> positivism oriented scientific community my findings could be<br />
used in an explorative fashi<strong>on</strong> as data from a radically reflexive perspective which can<br />
generate new hypotheses and new themes for further research.<br />
It could be interesting to take up further research into the presence and impact of<br />
corporate jesters or bricoleurs within organizati<strong>on</strong>s with regard to the development<br />
and attainability of policy. Apparently in practice a bricoleur with a touch of ir<strong>on</strong>y is<br />
needed to bridge the many differences. The characteristics of this ‘mechanic for<br />
m<strong>on</strong>tage’ (in line with Denzin and Lincoln, 1994) is to be explored al<strong>on</strong>g the call for a<br />
corporate jester (Firth and Leigh, 1998; Kets de Vries, 1993; Raad, 2008; Riveness,<br />
2006), the need for a mediating link (Christakis and Fowler, 2010; Csermely, 2009) and<br />
of a bricoleur (Duymedjian and Ruling, 2010; Fuglsang and Sørensen, 2011; Gabriel,<br />
2002; Weick, 2001). It may even be that what in hindsight at the beginning of my<br />
PhD-research I characterized as my fuzzy mixture of different perspectives <strong>on</strong> life,<br />
work or management, is a prec<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong> for being a bricoleur with a touch of ir<strong>on</strong>y.<br />
The community of advisers and managers<br />
The community of readers – in my case members of my organizati<strong>on</strong> and advisers in<br />
other organizati<strong>on</strong>s or managers – would be interested in the practical value of this<br />
research. Positi<strong>on</strong>ing my research as practice-based of an n-type (Verschuren, 2009;<br />
see 2.3), I assume that my research could help to be more susceptible to dissenting<br />
opini<strong>on</strong>s in order to prevent derailments, which might be evolving or lying in ambush.<br />
Is this perspective the pragmatic value of my research might also be worthwhile for<br />
other organizati<strong>on</strong>s. When neither policy-development nor policy-implementati<strong>on</strong><br />
appears to a linear and rati<strong>on</strong>al process and inevitably involves the participati<strong>on</strong> -<br />
whether c<strong>on</strong>structive, indifferent or destructive from whatever point of view - of<br />
many, then exclusi<strong>on</strong> or suppressi<strong>on</strong> of opini<strong>on</strong>s could be hazardous. The research<br />
underlines that managers suffer from tensi<strong>on</strong>s and ambiguity in coping with the<br />
introducti<strong>on</strong> of NPM-oriented policy (Christopher and Leung, 2015; Vakkuri, 2010), and<br />
supposedly will be still doing that for a l<strong>on</strong>g time (Lapsley, 2008). In reality there may<br />
be (created) far more opportunities to discuss the whereabouts of policy.<br />
Critical self-reflecti<strong>on</strong> for professi<strong>on</strong>als<br />
For a performative quality of the research - performative in a pedagogical interpretati<strong>on</strong><br />
- it is interesting to ask whether the research triggers critical reflecti<strong>on</strong> about the<br />
reader’s life and work situati<strong>on</strong>. Is the research sensitizing the reader to its own political<br />
behaviour? If my findings res<strong>on</strong>ate they could have impact <strong>on</strong> colleagues who read<br />
my thesis and start reflecting about their interacti<strong>on</strong>s within the UAS. As menti<strong>on</strong>ed<br />
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