International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221-0989 (Online) 10.30845/ijhss

Towards a Unified Research Program for Organizational Studies
Augusto Renato Pérez Mayo, Maricela Guzmán Cáceres, José Alberto Hernández Aguilar

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to argue the epistemic peculiarity of organizational studies, which have an object of study, research methodology and theory developed, and the peculiarity of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity that characterize when it comes to know, understand and participate in the organization, which is the object of study. Leagues and complementarities arise with management science and other social sciences; hence the need to provide epistemic identity to organizational studies is considered, through its philosophical, methodological and theoretical peculiarities, by creating a research program from the perspective of Imre Lakatos.

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