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A summary of all these trends is found in Tab. 1 above, while the presented cognitive perspectives shall be a subject of analysis in the following chapters.
Analysing the development of the cultural concepts in management sciences, several conclusions may be drawn. The increase in the complexity of the theory and methodology of research is a clear trend. Three identified historical trends (preculturalism, social relations and work environment) have treated the issues of cultural management very narrowly, whereas five of the modern trends have created a very complex and multi-faceted picture of cultural management processes. The increase in the number and complexity of theories is caused both by the ambivalent current results of cultural research in the management sciences, as well as by a rapid increase in the number of schools and paradigms of understanding of management culture in the humanities and social sciences. The cultural discourse in organisations and management draws primarily from other disciplines, which makes the research issue highly interdisciplinary. Currently, in the social sciences (management included), there is no single adopted position on understanding and studying culture. Thus, a reasonable position would be to assume an epistemological and methodological pluralism, which means that it is acceptable to understand the basic concepts in various ways and to use extremely different methods when undertaking cultural research into organisations. At the same time, it is necessary to explicitly define definitions and cognitive and methodological assumptions.
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