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Logics of Organization Theory

Author : Michael T. Hannan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843014
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Logics of Organization Theory written by Michael T. Hannan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools--first-order logic and its foundational set theory--are ill-suited for handling these complications. Here, three leading authorities rethink organization theory. Logics of Organization Theory sets forth and applies a new language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. In doing so, not only does it mark a major advance in organizational theory, but it also draws lessons for theory building elsewhere in the social sciences. Organizational research typically analyzes organizations in categories such as "bank," "hospital," or "university." These categories have been treated as crisp analytical constructs designed by researchers. But sociologists increasingly view categories as constructed by audiences. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the new language of theory building to organizational ecology. It reconstructs and integrates four central theory fragments, and in so doing reveals unexpected connections and new insights.

The Logic of Organization

Author : Alfred Kuhn
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Organization written by Alfred Kuhn and published by San Francisco : Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1982 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Logic and the Organization of Information

Author : Martin Frické
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461430887
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Logic and the Organization of Information written by Martin Frické and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects—books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more—in the digital era. This book provides an in-depth technical background for digital librarianship, and covers a broad range of theoretical and practical topics including: classification theory, topic annotation, automatic clustering, generalized synonymy and concept indexing, distributed libraries, semantic web ontologies and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It also analyzes the challenges facing today’s information architects, and outlines a series of techniques for overcoming them. Logic and the Organization of Information is intended for practitioners and professionals working at a design level as a reference book for digital librarianship. Advanced-level students, researchers and academics studying information science, library science, digital libraries and computer science will also find this book invaluable.

The Logic of Organization

Author : Alfred Kuhn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875895291
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Organization written by Alfred Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Logic of Organizations

Author : Bengt Abrahamsson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 080395039X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Organizations written by Bengt Abrahamsson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and challenging. The Logic of Organizations explores organizational theory by focusing on the genesis of organizations and the conditions for their continued existence. Abrahamsson draws upon the classic theories of Marx, Weber, and Michels, as well as more contemporary developments in organizational theory, to present his unique theory - that organizations are deliberately designed social structures established by individuals, groups, or classes in order to implement specific goals. To effectively support his argument, the author concentrates on three critical areas of organizations: how to make organizations more efficient and more representative of the interests and objectives of their founders, and how to relieve the problems of bureaucracy, namely administrative groups working toward their own goals and objectives rather than those of the organization.

Logics of Hierarchy

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466393
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Logics of Hierarchy written by Alexander Cooley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory. In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq. In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism.

Classics of organization theory

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classics of organization theory written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Markets from Culture

Author : Patricia H. Thornton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740210
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Markets from Culture written by Patricia H. Thornton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional logics, the underlying governing principles of societal sectors, strongly influence organizational decision making. Any shift in institutional logics results in a similar shift in attention to alternative problems and solutions and in new determinants for executive decisions. Examining changes in institutional logics in higher-education publishing, this book links cultural analysis with organizational decision making to develop a theory of attention and explain how executives concentrate on certain market characteristics to the exclusion of others. Analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data from the 1950s to the 1990s, the author shows how higher education publishing moved from a culture of independent domestic publishers focused on creating markets for books based on personal, relational networks to a culture of international conglomerates that create markets from corporate hierarchies. This book offers broader lessons beyond publishing--its theory is applicable to explaining institutional changes in organizational leadership, strategy, and structure occurring in all professional services industries.

Organizational Hybridity

Author : Marya Besharov
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839093544
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Hybridity written by Marya Besharov and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains Open Access chapters This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.

The Institutional Logics Perspective

Author : Patricia H. Thornton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057363
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Institutional Logics Perspective written by Patricia H. Thornton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities. In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influential works on institutional theory motivated a distinct new approach to scholarship on institutional logics. The book shows how the institutional logics perspective transforms institutional theory. It presents novel theory, further elaborates the institutional logics perspective, and forges new linkages to key literatures on practice, identity, and social and cognitive psychology. It develops the microfoundations of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship, proposing a set of mechanisms that go beyond meta-theory, integrating this work with macro theory on institutional logics into a cross-levels model of cultural heterogeneity. By incorporating current psychological understanding of human behaviour and linking it to sociological perspectives, it aims to provide an encompassing framework for institutional analysis, and to be an essential and accessible reference for scholars and advanced students of organizational behaviour, organization and management theory, business strategy, and cultural sociology.

Computational Organization Theory

Author : Kathleen M. Carley
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317781155
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Computational Organization Theory written by Kathleen M. Carley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents an advance in our understanding of how to represent and reason about organizational phenomena. Although organizational theorists have long grappled with the complexities of adaptive agents, ecological systems, and non-linear relations among the basic elements of organizational design, they have not, until recently, had the tools to grapple with these complex relationships. Recent advances in logic, symbolic programming, network analysis, and computer technology have made possible a series of tools that can be used to understand the complexities of organizational behavior. New computational techniques make it possible to develop and test more realistic models of organizational behavior. This volume offers examples of this new breed of models, and provides insight into how these advances and techniques can be used to extend our theoretical understanding of organizations. Authored by leading researchers in the area of computational organization theory, the various chapters demonstrate the value of computational analysis for organizational theory and advance our understanding of the relationship between organizational design and performance. This book contains both theoretical and methodological contributions that enable organizational theorists to use computational and mathematical techniques to systematically address the complex relationships that underlie organizational life. It also presents new -- or sometimes, renewed -- approaches on how to conduct organizational research from multiple formal perspectives including: simulation, numerical analysis, symbolic logic, mathematical modeling, and graph theory.

Institutional Logics in Action

Author : Michael Lounsbury
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781909210
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Logics in Action written by Michael Lounsbury and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to "bring society back in" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

Author : Royston Greenwood
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526415054
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism written by Royston Greenwood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the bestselling The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism has been thoroughly revised with new chapters added, bringing together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory.

Organizational Logics

Author : Scott Weller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Logics written by Scott Weller and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores a missing link in organizational theory--organizational logics. Organizational logics are expected to play an intermediary role between personal logics and institutional logics. Additionally, organizational logics likely generate an organization's structure and functions. A formal conceptual definition of organizational logics is described in conjunction with a conceptual framework for a tripartite pattern of inquiry. The pattern of inquiry uses pragmatism, dialectics, and sensemaking as lenses to explain "what works", "what is needed", and "what is known" regarding organizational logics. The purpose of this study is to explore organizational logics in several ways. First, as a developing theoretical approach, organizational logics theory needs a research agenda beginning with explanatory case studies. Second, I will broaden the scope of the theory by introducing elements of complexity theory, pragmatism, dialectics, and sensemaking. Third, the multilevel linking of logics is familiar territory in other fields such as biology, computer science, and complexity, but a new direction for logics research organization theory. The study uses a qualitative research method with an in-depth case study. The research site is a typical nonprofit organization that employs a soccer-based medium to serve at-risk children. The research methods include interviews with the organization's members, archival research, and naturalistic observation. The tripartite pattern of inquiry is overlaid on these methods to answer my research questions: what are organizational logics? Are they distinguishable from, yet interrelated with personal logics and institutional logics? How are organizational logics interrelated? How do those relationships change over time? The answers to these questions explain how organizations emerge from linkages of organizational logics. The research findings conceptualize organizational logics as distinguishable from, yet interrelated with, personal logics and institutional logics. Second, the findings associated with dynamics between logics explained the dialectic interplay between organizational logics and how that interaction shapes organizations in practice. Third, the findings regarding changes over time illustrated how organizational logics and their interactions with each other enable an organization to change over time in response to varying environmental constraints. However, the transformation by which organization logics change their recognizable, actionable, and normative characteristics in response to the dialectic process remains unexplained. The answers to these three research objectives also answered my research question as the findings demonstrated that organizational logics emerge, interact, and change in organizations over time.

Social Movements and Organization Theory

Author : Gerald F. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139444190
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Social Movements and Organization Theory written by Gerald F. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like - more volatile and politicized - while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Organization theory and social movement theory are two of the most vibrant areas within the social sciences. This collection of original essays and studies both calls for a closer connection between these fields and demonstrates the value of this interchange. Three introductory, programmatic essays by leading scholars in the two fields are followed by eight empirical studies that directly illustrate the benefits of this type of cross-pollination. The studies variously examine the processes by which movements become organized and the role of movement processes within and among organizations. The topics covered range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling programs.

The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory

Author : Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 9780199275250
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory written by Haridimos Tsoukas and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2005 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken? What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what forms do its knowledge claims take as they are put forward for public adoption? 3) How have certain well-known controversies in organization theory, such as for example, the structure/agency dilemma, the study of organizational culture, the different modes of explanation, the micro/macro controversy, and the differnet explanations produced by organizational economists and sociologists, been dealt with? 4) How, and in what ways, is knowledge generated in organization theory related to action? What features must organization theory knowledge have in order to be actionable, and of relevance to the world 'out there'? How have ethical concerns been taken into account in organization theory? 5) What is the future of organization theory? What direction should the field take? What must change in the way research is conducted and key theoretical terms are conceptualized so that organization theory enhances its capacity to generate valid and relevant knowledge?

Philosophy and Organization Theory

Author : Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857245953
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Organization Theory written by Haridimos Tsoukas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? This title includes the papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. It explores the question: What does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?