Logics Of Organization Theory

Author : Michael T. Hannan,László Pólos,Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400843015

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Logics of Organization Theory by Michael T. Hannan,László Pólos,Glenn R. Carroll Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4415282

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The Logic of Organization by Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam Pdf

Author : Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0875895298

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The Logic of Organization by Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam Pdf

Author : Bengt Abrahamsson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803950399

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The Logic of Organizations by Bengt Abrahamsson Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Frické
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461430889

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Logic and the Organization of Information by Martin Frické Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia H. Thornton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804740216

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Markets from Culture by Patricia H. Thornton Pdf

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.

Author : Marya Besharov,Bjoern Mitzinneck
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839093548

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Organizational Hybridity by Marya Besharov,Bjoern Mitzinneck Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Lounsbury,Eva Boxenbaum
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781909218

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Institutional Logics in Action by Michael Lounsbury,Eva Boxenbaum Pdf

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

Author : Scott Weller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1198443049

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Organizational Logics by Scott Weller Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Lounsbury,Joel Gehman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803921273

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Concise Introduction to Organization Theory by Michael Lounsbury,Joel Gehman Pdf

In this Concise Introduction, Michael Lounsbury and Joel Gehman set out an overview of organization theory that clarifies how to cultivate a robust scholarly identity in a field rich with diverse research traditions. Providing a summary of rationalist, pragmatic and co-constitutive theories, they highlight how scholars can meaningfully contribute to the academic conversation and maximize the practical relevance of their work.

Author : Patricia H. Thornton,William Ocasio,Michael Lounsbury
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191057366

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The Institutional Logics Perspective by Patricia H. Thornton,William Ocasio,Michael Lounsbury Pdf

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.

Author : Jeroen Paul Bruggeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020445396

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Formalizing Organizational Ecology by Jeroen Paul Bruggeman Pdf

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801466397

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Logics of Hierarchy by Alexander Cooley Pdf

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.

Author : Haridimos Tsoukas,Robert Chia
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857245960

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Philosophy and Organization Theory by Haridimos Tsoukas,Robert Chia Pdf

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?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781906934

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Religion and Organization Theory by Anonim Pdf

Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda.