Alignment in Organisations: Does an Interpretative Perspective Lead to a Better Understanding of the Subject?

In this article we discuss the concept of alignment and the different domains in which this concept is used. The used functionalist perspective to alignment has limitations for our understanding of this concept. As a consequence we put forward a social constructionist approach to conducting research into alignment. On the basis of this we substantiate a proposition that by examining the restrictive influence of themes on collective sense-making...