The Logic Of Organizations

Author : Martin Frické
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Bengt Abrahamsson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521339626

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The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society by Jack Goody Pdf

Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.

Author : P. Sargant Florence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136512544

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The Logic of Industrial Organization by P. Sargant Florence Pdf

Covering issues as pertinent today as when the book was first published, The Logic of Industrial Organization discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration. The book contains chapters on the following: The Structure of Industry; The Efficiency of Large-Scale Operation; Planned and Free Consumption; Forecasting and Market Research; Competition; Rationalization and Nationalization; Investment and Employment; Incentives to Work and Mobility; Stimulus to Enterprise and Administration.

Author : Michael Lounsbury,Eva Boxenbaum
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Ray Fisman,Tim Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691166513

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The Org by Ray Fisman,Tim Sullivan Pdf

We create organizations because we need to get a job done—something we couldn't do alone—and join them because we’re inspired by their missions (and our paycheck). But once we’re inside, these organizations rarely feel inspirational. So where did it all go wrong? In The Org, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of orgs. The Org diagnoses the root causes of that malfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place, then working its way up through the org’s structure from the lowly cubicle to the CEO’s office. You'll learn: The purpose of meetings and why they will never go away Why even members of al Qaeda are required to submit travel and expense reports What managers are good for How the army and other orgs balance marching in lockstep with fostering innovation Why the hospital administration—not the heart surgeon—is more likely to save your life Why CEOs often spend more than 80 percent of their time in meetings—and why that's exactly where they should be (and why they get paid so much)

Author : Patricia H. Thornton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030176747

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Purpose-driven Organizations by Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok Pdf

A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift from previous models and theories, this book contributes to debate and offers insight for both scholars and practitioners. The chapters bring together academic rigour and practical models to help readers distinguish between the fads and influential strategies. Exploring the development of purpose at each level of business, from strategy and leadership to communication, this book avoids theoretical jargon and provides new approaches to building sustainable purpose-driven organizations. This is an Open Access book sponsored by DPMC Spain, UIC Barcelona and Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership

Author : Massimo Warglien,Michael Masuch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110871814

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The Logic of Organizational Disorder by Massimo Warglien,Michael Masuch Pdf

Author : Alfred Kuhn,Robert D. Beam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0875895298

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

Author : Johan Alvehus
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529206067

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The Logic of Professionalism by Johan Alvehus Pdf

This book explores common management practices as they relate to professional service organizations. Adopting a unique critical institutional view, it focuses on challenges and struggles in both public and private settings and offers new insights. This will be essential reading for scholars of management and leadership.

Author : Patricia H. Thornton,William Ocasio,Michael Lounsbury
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Michael T. Hannan,László Pólos,Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Philip Sargant Florence
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business
ISBN : 0415313511

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The Logic of Industrial Organization by Philip Sargant Florence Pdf

Covering issues as pertinent today as when the book was first published, The Logic of Industrial Organization discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration. The book contains chapters on the following: The Structure of Industry; The Efficiency of Large-Scale Operation; Planned and Free Consumption; Forecasting and Market Research; Competition; Rationalization and Nationalization; Investment and Employment; Incentives to Work and Mobility; Stimulus to Enterprise and Administration.