ABSTRACT
Research by Kuhn found that knowledge building in science is a process marked by occasional great lurches forward, which he called ‘paradigms’. According to Kuhn, a paradigm is a universally recognized scientific achievement that, over a period of time, provides model problems and solutions. It includes common postulates related to the nature of organizational reality and ways of challenging it, criteria regarding scientific truth, the attitude to values, identification of the researcher, and the attitude to management practice. One may be tempted to say that a paradigm is a valid worldview, a way of seeing the world.
