ABSTRACT
In recent years we have seen the growing acknowledgement of the complexity of the interplay of science and values in the social sciences. The interpretation of social action, the capacity of human beings to follow rules of their own making and the contribution of social science to structuring the very reality it seeks to analyse all raise issues which transcend the limits of traditional views of a science. Such issues have a heightened importance in the study of organizations where the problems of control and authority are central and where, therefore, the question of whom does organizational science service is always pertinent.
