Logics of Organization Theory : Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

Michael T. Hannan

ISBN 10: 0691134502 / ISBN 13: 9780691134505

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2007

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Logics of Organization Theory : Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691134502
• ISBN-13: 9780691134505
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 234B x 156 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 234 mm, Höhe: 156 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 649 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael T. Hannan is the Stratacom Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Business and professor of sociology at Stanford University. Laszlo Polos is professor of organization theory at the Durham Business School in the United Kingdom. Glenn R. Carroll is the Laurence W. Lane Professor of Organizations in the Graduate School of Business and (by courtesy) professor of sociology at Stanford.