商品簡介
Our compulsion to organize is as strong as our compulsion to create change, and the result might first appear as chaos. However, as Hernes (innovation and economic organization, Norwegian School of Management) points out, keeping a process philosophy approach in mind untangles what appears to be mutually conflicting markets, products, standards, technologies, institutions and social groups. He examines the thought of such leaders as Latour, Weick and March within the work done by Whitehead as he suggests a method of process-based organizational analysis for academics, practitioners and upper-level students, reviewing the situation and related process views. He details the thought of each of the leading theorists and proposes a scheme for analysis that incorporates the primacy of connecting, the concept of organization as, alternatively, reiteration and novelty, builds in the idea of "plot," and describes the potentiality-actuality dimension. Particularly interesting is his chapter on the implications for process-based organizational analysis. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Tor Hernes is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management, where he is also Head of the Department for Innovation and Economic Organization.
