Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies
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Main Author: Hannan, Michael T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2011
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Online Access:Volltext
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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. Organizat
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (381 p.)
ISBN:9781400843015
1400843014
1283379929
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