Logics of Organization Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logics of Organization Theory write by Michael T. Hannan. This book was released on 2012-01-09. Logics of Organization Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Logic of Organization
The Logic of Organization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of Organization write by Alfred Kuhn. This book was released on 1982. The Logic of Organization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Logic and the Organization of Information
Logic and the Organization of Information - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logic and the Organization of Information write by Martin Frické. This book was released on 2012-02-09. Logic and the Organization of Information available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects—books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more—in the digital era. This book provides an in-depth technical background for digital librarianship, and covers a broad range of theoretical and practical topics including: classification theory, topic annotation, automatic clustering, generalized synonymy and concept indexing, distributed libraries, semantic web ontologies and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It also analyzes the challenges facing today’s information architects, and outlines a series of techniques for overcoming them. Logic and the Organization of Information is intended for practitioners and professionals working at a design level as a reference book for digital librarianship. Advanced-level students, researchers and academics studying information science, library science, digital libraries and computer science will also find this book invaluable.
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society write by Jack Goody. This book was released on 1986-12-18. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.
The Org
The Org - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Org write by Ray Fisman. This book was released on 2015-02-22. The Org available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We create organizations because we need to get a job done—something we couldn't do alone—and join them because we’re inspired by their missions (and our paycheck). But once we’re inside, these organizations rarely feel inspirational. So where did it all go wrong? In The Org, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of orgs. The Org diagnoses the root causes of that malfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place, then working its way up through the org’s structure from the lowly cubicle to the CEO’s office. You'll learn: The purpose of meetings and why they will never go away Why even members of al Qaeda are required to submit travel and expense reports What managers are good for How the army and other orgs balance marching in lockstep with fostering innovation Why the hospital administration—not the heart surgeon—is more likely to save your life Why CEOs often spend more than 80 percent of their time in meetings—and why that's exactly where they should be (and why they get paid so much)
