Operativity And Typicality:Studies Of Meaning And Communication Theory In Organizational Research

by: Thomas Drepper (Author)

Publisher: Springer
Edition:1st ed. 2023

Publication Date: 10 Aug. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 179 pages

ISBN-10: 3658420103

ISBN-13: 9783658420109

Book Description

The present text discusses sense-theoretical foundations of recent organizational research and makes them visible by analyzing epistemological terms of current discourses in organizational science (cognition, institution, practice, culture, communication, semantics). In a further step, communication is discussed as an operative guiding concept for understanding organizational reproduction and networking and applied to various organizational phenomena (managementization, standardization, circulation of ideas, translation, design). This book thus sees itself both as a contribution to theory development in organizational research and as a contribution to the research field of "(world) society and organization." Overall, the individual studies in this text discuss and explore the relevance of an epistemological, social and societal foundation of organization theory on the basis of an operational theory of meaning.