The legacy of classical American Pragmatism—Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, Mead, Follett, and others—in organization theory is significant, albeit that much of its influence has come through implicit and indirect routes. In light of recent calls for an empirical stance as an alternative to the prevailing metaphysical stance in organizational research, we re-read Pragmatism as a process philosophy that can profoundly inform process views of organization and organizing. Our particular reading highlights Pragmatism’s emphasis on process and emergence, its theory of knowing as fallible and experimental, its denouncing of dualisms, its future-oriented meliorism, its sensitivity to ethics and democracy, and its positioning of experience as both the start and end of inquiry, arguing that these features lay invaluable groundwork for the study of organization and organizing. We advocate a reappraisal of this legacy, mobilising seven articles from the back catalogue of this journal in a virtual special issues that demonstrates how classical American Pragmatism can reinvigorate the field while also opening up new questions and new ways of questioning.

美国古典实用主义的遗产-皮尔士，詹姆斯，杜威，亚当斯，米德，福莱特等人在组织理论中具有重要意义，尽管其影响力很大一部分来自内在和间接的途径。鉴于最近要求以经验立场代替组织研究中普遍存在的形而上学立场，我们重新阅读实用主义作为一种过程哲学，可以深刻地启发组织和组织的过程观点。我们的特殊读物突出了实用主义对过程和出现的重视，其对谬论和实验的认识，对二元论的谴责，面向未来的讽刺主义，对道德和民主的敏感性以及经验作为起点和终点的定位。查询，这些功能为组织研究奠定了宝贵的基础。我们提倡对这一遗产进行重新评估，从该期刊的后部目录中动员七篇文章，刊登在一个虚拟的特别刊物上，这些文章展示了经典的美国实用主义如何振兴这一领域，同时也提出了新的问题和新的质疑方式。