Understanding organization as process: theory for a tangled world
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Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xiv
1 Organization in a tangled world 1
Looking for the organization 1
The in here and the out there 2
A correlational view and some problems 7
A relational view 12
A question of locus of selection 16
Becoming in the place of change 17
2 Process views of organization 19
Early and recent debates 19
The very early thinkers 24
Enter the twentieth century science and philosophy 26
Back to organization studies 28
Entification 30
3 Alfred North Whitehead on process 32
Introduction 32
Ultimate process versus ultimate fact 34
An atomistic view 37
The power of becoming 40
Potentiality and actuality 41
Events 44
Formation of meaning and the changing subject 49
Events and entities 52
Organization between concrete experience and abstraction 53
Extracting foci from Whitehead 55
x Contents
4 Bruno Latour: relativizing the social, and the becoming
of networks 59
Introduction 59
Experimentation as organization and vice versa 63
Actor networks and their theory 65
The fallacy of levels of analysis 68
Translation, inscription and stabilization 70
Enrolment the outward dynamics of networks 73
Connectivity 75
On Latour, Whitehead and organization 76
5 Niklas Luhmann on autopoiesis and recursiveness in
social systems 78
Introduction 78
Background and principles 79
Autopoiesis 82
Time and structure 85
Events, contingencies and horizons 87
From meaning to expectations and beyond 88
Complexity, autopoiesis and identity 91
On the absence of the subject 93
On Luhmann, Whitehead and organization 94
6 James March on decision processes and organization: a logic
of streams 96
Introduction 96
How organizations become: decisions connecting decisions 99
Signals and symbols 103
The inefficient yet indispensable histories: search processes
and learning 106
The power of routines and the subtleness of change 110
On March, Whitehead and organization 112
7 Karl Weick on organizing and scnsemaking 114
From entities to process 114
The power of language 116
Verbs: the intersubjective side of processes 118
Nouns: the tentative fixing of patterns 120
Organizing between nouns and verbs 122
The question of extension oftimespaces 124
On Weick, Whitehead and organization 125
Contents xi
8 A scheme for process based organizational analysis 128
Introduction 128
The primacy of connecting 129
Organization as reiteration and novelty 132
The essence of plot 134
The potentiality actuality dimension 136
The Grameen Bank: a tangled story 137
9 Some implications for organizational analysis 142
A different way of studying things 142
Understanding rather than measurement 143
Capta rather than data selection rather than finding 145
Labels and muddles 147
Notes 151
Bibliography 155
Author index 166
Subject index 169
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Contents
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xiv
1 Organization in a tangled world 1
Looking for the organization 1
The 'in here' and the 'out there' 2
A correlational view and some problems 7
A relational view 12
A question of locus of selection 16
Becoming in the place of change 17
2 Process views of organization 19
Early and recent debates 19
The very early thinkers 24
Enter the twentieth century science and philosophy 26
Back to organization studies 28
Entification 30
3 Alfred North Whitehead on process 32
Introduction 32
Ultimate process versus ultimate fact 34
An atomistic view 37
The power of becoming 40
Potentiality and actuality 41
Events 44
Formation of meaning and the changing subject 49
Events and entities 52
Organization between concrete experience and abstraction 53
Extracting foci from Whitehead 55
x Contents
4 Bruno Latour: relativizing the social, and the becoming
of networks 59
Introduction 59
Experimentation as organization and vice versa 63
Actor networks and their theory 65
The fallacy of levels of analysis 68
Translation, inscription and stabilization 70
Enrolment the outward dynamics of networks 73
Connectivity 75
On Latour, Whitehead and organization 76
5 Niklas Luhmann on autopoiesis and recursiveness in
social systems 78
Introduction 78
Background and principles 79
Autopoiesis 82
Time and structure 85
Events, contingencies and horizons 87
From meaning to expectations and beyond 88
Complexity, autopoiesis and identity 91
On the absence of the subject 93
On Luhmann, Whitehead and organization 94
6 James March on decision processes and organization: a logic
of streams 96
Introduction 96
How organizations become: decisions connecting decisions 99
Signals and symbols 103
The inefficient yet indispensable histories: search processes
and learning 106
The power of routines and the subtleness of change 110
On March, Whitehead and organization 112
7 Karl Weick on organizing and scnsemaking 114
From entities to process 114
The power of language 116
Verbs: the intersubjective side of processes 118
Nouns: the tentative fixing of patterns 120
Organizing between nouns and verbs 122
The question of extension oftimespaces 124
On Weick, Whitehead and organization 125
Contents xi
8 A scheme for process based organizational analysis 128
Introduction 128
The primacy of connecting 129
Organization as reiteration and novelty 132
The essence of plot 134
The potentiality actuality dimension 136
The Grameen Bank: a tangled story 137
9 Some implications for organizational analysis 142
A different way of studying things 142
Understanding rather than measurement 143
Capta rather than data selection rather than finding 145
Labels and muddles 147
Notes 151
Bibliography 155
Author index 166
Subject index 169 |
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