Understanding Organization as Process
Theory for a Tangled World
Published on 27. September 2007
208 pages
978-1-134-08138-7 (ISBN)
Description
Organization 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
Reviews / Votes
"This book represents a serious attempt to review the ideas of Alfred N. Whitehead as applied to the process of organizing. Here, in the one book, Hernes invites us to review the contributions of Latour, Luhmann, March, and Weick for understanding organisation through the lens of Whitehead's process philosophy. In so doing, he challenges us to think again about the nature of organisation and how we investigate it. Definitely one for the bookshelf!" Dr Neil Paulsen, University of Queensland Business School, AustraliaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 table
File size
1,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-08138-7 (9781134081387)
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Person
Tor Hernes is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management, where he is also Head of the Department for Innovation and Economic Organization.
Content
1. Organization in a Tangled World 2. Process Views of Organization 3. Alfred North Whitehead on Process 4. Bruno Latour on Relativizing the Social and the Becoming of Networks 5. Niklas Luhmann on Autopoiesis and Recursiveness in Social Systems 6. James March on Decision Processes and Organization: A Logic of Streams 7. Karl Weick on Organizing and Sensemaking 8. A Scheme for Process Based Organizational Analysis 9. Some Implications for Organizational Analysis
