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. INDICE: Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas: Introducing Perspectives on Process Organization Studies; Tor Hernes and Sally Maitlis: Process, Sensemaking, and Organizaing: an Introduction; John Mullarkey: Stop Making (Philosophical) Sense: Notes towards a Process Organizational-thinking beyond 'Philosophy'; Kenneth J. Gergen: Co-Constitution, Causality, and Confluence: Organizing ina World without Entities; John Shotter: Adopting a Process Orientation. in Practice: Chiasmic Relations, Language, and Embodiment in a Living World; Karl E. Weick: The Poetics of Process: Theorizing the Ineffable in Organization Studies; Robert Chia: Rediscovering Becoming: Insights from an Oriental Perspective on Process Organization Studies; Barbara Czarniawska: Going Back to Go Forward: On Studying Organzing in Action Nets; Tor Hernes: Actor-Network Theory, Callon's Scallops, and Process-based Organization Studies; Sergey E. Osadchiy, Irma Bogenrieder, and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens: Organizational Learning through Problem Absorption: a Processual View; Elden Wiebe: Temporal Sensemaking: Managers' Use of Time to Frame Organizational Change; Silvia Jordan and Hermann Mitterhofer: Studying Metaphors-in-use in their Social and Institutional Context- Sensemaking and Discourse Theory; Robert P. Gephart, Jr., Cagri Topal, and Zhen Zhang: Future-oriented Sensemaking: Temporalities and Institutional Legitimation
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959456-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés