pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...

This volume provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. It offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organisational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth...

This volume is motivated by key questions and challenges associated with reviving and developing a comparative perspective. One organizing theme of the volume is to present comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. While...

What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? While at first glance there might appear to be little, a closer look reveals a rich pattern of connections. More than any other type of human inquiry, philosophy helps make us self-aware of critical assumptions we tacitly...

There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at the institutional level with which organizations must contend. In the United States especially, this belies our history of marking organizations and...

Der Autor zeigt, wie Metaphern unser Denken über Organisationen bestimmen und unser Handeln in Unternehmen beeinflussen. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Theorien , auf deren Oberfläche sich die entscheidenden Metaphern von Organisationen gebildet haben. In einem Fallbeispiel erläutert...