Perspective—Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
Abstract
Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the...
Paper Details
Title
Perspective—Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
Published Date
Feb 1, 2010
Journal
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
290 - 305
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