Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled WorldOrganization takes place in a tangled world, intermeshed by changing markets, products, standards, technologies, institutions and social groups. Coming to grips with the complexity and fluidity of organization and management is a persistent problem for scholars and practitioners alike, which is why process issues have received renewed interest in r |
Contents
Organization in a tangled world 1 | |
Process views of organization 19 | |
Alfred North Whitehead on process 32 | |
relativizing the social and the becomingof networks 59 | |
a logic | |
Karl Weick on organizing and sensemaking 114 | |
A scheme for processbased organizational analysis 128 | |
Some implications for organizational analysis 142 | |
Understanding rather than measurement 143 | |
Notes 151 | |
Author index 166 | |
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Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World Tor Hernes No preview available - 2008 |
Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World Tor Hernes No preview available - 2009 |
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abstractions according to Whitehead actants actions activities actor-network actor-network theory actors actual al-Qaeda Alfred North Whitehead argued assume assumption atomistic atomistic view autopoiesis autopoietic basis become behaviour Bergson boundaries Bruno Latour chapter choices complex concrete experience connecting Czarniawska decisions distinction emerge enable enactment entities environment evolve example exist fact flows fluid world focus Grameen Bank Halewood happen Hence Heraclites Hernes human idea implies important innovation institutions interact James Karl Weick Latour Lucretius Luhmann mafia March means models of organizing nature Nike Niklas Luhmann notion nouns novelty occasions operations organization studies organization theory organizational analysis patterns perspective phenomena philosophy possible potentiality process philosophy process thinking process view produced reality refers relations represent reproduce routines seen selection sense sensemaking social systems sociology stability structure substance suggests takes place tangled world things timespace understanding view of organization Weick words