Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing is the first in a series of volumes which explore perspectives on process theories, an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over determination. Process and sensemaking may be seen as mutually interlocking phenomena and, as such, are cornerstones in process thinking, This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars energized by process organization studies. The collection offers perspectives from different disciplines, insights from diverse theoretical traditions and contexts, and parallels made with a range of cultural forms, including art, poetry, and cookery. At the same time, the chapters exhibit a clear emphasis on a process ontology, process theorizing, and narrative thinking. Across this rich and varied collection recurrent themes emerge that distinguish process theorizing from the more logico-scientific, variance-oriented research that dominates organization studies today. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and graduate students in management, organization studies, and sociology who wish to better understand the emergent, changing, and flow-like character of organizational life and expand their understanding of the nature of sensemaking as a basis for organizing.
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This volume brings together perspectives on process theories, an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state.
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Introducing Perspectives on Process Organization Studies ; Process, Sensemaking, and Organizaing: an Introduction ; Stop Making (Philosophical) Sense: Notes towards a Process Organizational-thinking beyond 'Philosophy' ; Co-Constitution, Causality, and Confluence: Organizing in a World without Entities ; Adopting a Process Orientation...in Practice: Chiasmic Relations, Language, and Embodiment in a Living World ; The Poetics of Process: Theorizing the Ineffable in Organization Studies ; Rediscovering Becoming: Insights from an Oriental Perspective on Process Organization Studies ; Going Back to Go Forward: On Studying Organzing in Action Nets ; Actor-Network Theory, Callon's Scallops, and Process-based Organization Studies ; Organizational Learning through Problem Absorption: a Processual View ; Temporal Sensemaking: Managers' Use of Time to Frame Organizational Change ; Studying Metaphors-in-use in their Social and Institutional Context - Sensemaking and Discourse Theory ; Future-oriented Sensemaking: Temporalities and Institutional Legitimation
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First volume in a new series Comprehensive treatment of theories underlying process thinking and sensemaking Critical analysis of current research on the subject Contributions from leading European and North American scholars Provides insights from a diverse range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives
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Tor Hernes is Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School. Among his books are Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World (London: Routledge, 2007) and Actor-network Theory and Organizing (edited with Barbara Czarniawska, 2005, Copenhagen Business School). Tor Hernes works from a combination of process philosophy, systems theory and Actor-Network Theory. Sally Maitlis is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, and Organization Studies. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Studies. She is currently serving as the International Representative-at-Large for the Management and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management.
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First volume in a new series Comprehensive treatment of theories underlying process thinking and sensemaking Critical analysis of current research on the subject Contributions from leading European and North American scholars Provides insights from a diverse range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives
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ISBN
9780199594566
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
692 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
344

Biographical note

Tor Hernes is Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School. Among his books are Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World (London: Routledge, 2007) and Actor-network Theory and Organizing (edited with Barbara Czarniawska, 2005, Copenhagen Business School). Tor Hernes works from a combination of process philosophy, systems theory and Actor-Network Theory. Sally Maitlis is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, and Organization Studies. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Studies. She is currently serving as the International Representative-at-Large for the Management and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management.