Logics of Organization Theory : Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

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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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannan, Michael T.
Other Authors: Carroll, Glenn, Polos, Laszlo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Organizational sociology > Methodology.
Nonmonotonic reasoning.
Categories (Philosophy)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating.
Categories (Philosophie)
Raisonnement non-monotone.
Sociologie des organisations > Methodologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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. Organizat.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781400843015

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