Philosophical organization theory / Haridimos Tsoukas ; foreword Karl E. Weick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsoukas, Haridimos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Organizational sociology.

Organization--Philosophy.

Organization.

Physical Description:

xviii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory. In bringing together a collection of key essays by Haridimos Tsoukas, this volume explores fundamental concepts, such as organizational routine, that have gained currency in the field, as well as revisiting traditional concepts such as change, strategy, and organization. It discusses organizational knowledge, judgment, and reflection-in-action, and, at the meta-theoretical level, suggests complex forms of theorizing that do justice to the complexity of organizations.0The conceptual attention throughout is on process and practice, underlain by performative phenomenology and an emphasis on agents' lived experience. This provides us with the language to appreciate the dynamic character of organizational behaviour, the embeddedness of action, and the complexity of organizational life. The theoretical claims presented in this volume have important implications for practice, insofar as they help retrain our attention; from seeing structures and individuals, we0can now appreciate processes, experiences, and practices. A phenomenological attitude makes organization theory more open, more creative, and more reflexive, and this book will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of organization studies.

Contents:

Part I Organization and Strategy

1 Organization as Chaosmos: Insights from Cornelius Castoriadis p. 21

2 Understanding the (Re)creation of Routines horn Within: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective p. 38

3 Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations p. 78

4 Making Strategy: Meta-theoretical Insights from Heideggerian Phenomenology p. 101

5 Strategic Decision Making and Knowledge: A Heideggerian Approach p. 131

Part II Knowledge and Reflective Judgment

6 A Dialogical Approach to the Creation of New Knowledge in Organizations p. 161

7 What is Reflection-in-Action? A Phenomenological Account p. 195

8 In Search of Phronesis: Leadership and the Art of Judgment p. 226

9 Performing Phronesis: On the Way to Engaged Judgment p. 258

10 The "Metaphor" Metaphor: Educating Practitioners for Reflective Judgment p. 284

Part III Theorizing

11 Theory as Therapy: Wittgensteinian Reminders for Reflective Theorizing in Organization and Management Theory p. 297

12 Grasping the Logic of Practice: Theorizing through Practical Rationality p. 326

13 Practice Theory: What It Is, Its Philosophical Base, and What It Offers Organization Studies p. 363

14 Craving for Generality and Small-N Studies: A Wittgensteinian Approach towards the Epistemology of the Particular in Organization and Management Theory p. 384

15 The Power of the Particular: Towards an Organization Science of Singularities p. 408

16 Don't Simplify, Complexify: From Disjunctive to Conjunctive Theorizing in Organization and Management Studies p. 430.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Tsoukas, Haridimos. Philosophical organization theory.

ISBN:

9780198794547

0198794541

OCLC:

1085503291

Publisher Number:

99980368141