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Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

Pólos, László
Hannan, Michael T.
Carroll, Glenn R.

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0691134502
ISBN13: 9780691134505
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jul 22 2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

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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