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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: process theory of organization
  name:
    name part: Hernes, Tor
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    edition: First edition
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This book presents a novel and comprehensive process theory of organization applicable to 'a world on the move', where connectedness prevails over size, flow prevails over stability, and temporality prevails over spatiality. The process theory developed in the book draws upon process thinking in a number of areas, including process philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, and science and technology studies. Salient ideas from these schools are carefully woven into a process theory of organization, which makes the book not only a thought-provoking theoretical contribution, but also a much needed glimpse into the challenges faced by organizers in a world on the move. Taking a distinctly temporal view of organizational life the book shows how actors operate in an ongoing present in which they draw upon their past and project it as ambitions for the future. This ongoing work, in which technologies, concepts, and social actors take part, is crucial for the making of any type of organizational formation. A key construct of the book is that of events, which provide force, movement, and continuity to organizational life. While explaining organizing in a world on the move, the book emphasizes the recursive relationship between process and structure in such a way that novelty and continuity are seen as indispensible to one another. The theoretical framework developed is discussed in relation to selected themes in organization studies, such as change, identity, and institutions
  table of contents: Part 1. Some problems of organization theory and the potential of process organization theory -- Why assumptions in organization theory do not work for explaining organizing in a world on the move -- Assumptions for organizing in a world on the move -- Part 2. Toward a process theory of organization -- Temporality and process -- Organization, meaning structures, and time -- Articulatory models and agency -- Part 3. Process theory and selected aspects of organization management -- Process theory, organizational continuity, and change -- Managing and leading in time -- Organizational culture, identity, and institutions -- Some thoughts on studying process -- A plea for mystery.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Tor Hernes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Organization
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Organisation
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Organization
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Organisationssoziologie
  subject:
    topic: Organisationstheorie
  classification: HM786
  classification: 302.35
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    title info:
      title: Process theory of organization
    name:
      name part: Hernes, Tor.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2014933811
    identifier: (OCoLC)867613200
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    record creation date: 140210
    record change date: 20260319155951.3
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      language term: eng