 | Public health - 19?? - 148 pages
...achieve the identified objectives or outcome. James Thompson conceptualizes organizational action as "... rooted on the one hand in desired outcomes and on...other hand in beliefs about cause/effect relationships ,"13/ Delineating a programmatic theory of action is what Suchman identifies as making explicit the... | |
 | Carl Milofsky - Business & Economics - 1988 - 304 pages
...organization performs some kind of function or activity. According to Thompson, if the function or activity is "rooted on the one hand in desired outcomes and...hand in beliefs about cause/effect relationships, . . . we can speak of technology, or technical rationality." The coordinating agency uses the mediating... | |
 | Veronika Tacke - Chemical industry - 1997 - 284 pages
...Begriff der Technologie entlang dieser Charakteristik;! als ein Typus instrumentellen Handelns gefaßt10: „Instrumental action is rooted on the one hand in...relationships. Given a desire, the state of man's knowlegde at any point in time dictates the kind of variables required and the manner of their manipulation... | |
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Instrumental action is rooted on the one hand in desired outcomes and on the other hand in beliefs about cause/effect relationships. Given a desire, the state of man's knowledge at any point in time dictates the kinds of variables required and the manner... 