Logics of organization theory audiences, codes, and ecologies.

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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Main Authors:	Hannan, Michael T, Pólos, László, Carroll, Glenn R
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2012
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Audience Axiom Calculation Categories (Philosophy) Causal chain Causality Centrality Classical logic Classification Cognitive anthropology Cognitive psychology Commutative property Competition Conceptualization (information science) Consideration Demography Dynamic logic (modal logic) Emergence Endowment effect Explanation Explanatory power First-order logic Form classification Human ecology Identity (social science) Inference Instance (computer science) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Intension Intensional logic Legitimation Level of analysis Logic Market segmentation Material implication (rule of inference) Membership function (mathematics) Mental representation Meta-analysis Methodology Modal logic Non-monotonic logic Nonmonotonic reasoning Notation Object language Obsolescence Ontology (information science) Operationalization Organization Organization theory Organizational architecture Organizational behavior Organizational culture Organizational ecology Organizational identity Organizational performance Organizational research Organizational sociology Organizational sociology > Methodology Organizational structure Organizational theory Organizational unit (computing) Population Studies Predicate logic Prediction Predictive power Premises Principle of compositionality Probability Product design Product innovation Production function Psychology Quantifier (logic) Set theory Social movement SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Social theory Sociological theory Sociology Sociology of organizations Supply chain management The Conceptual Framework Theorem Theory Theory of Forms Unification (computer science) Working hypothesis Competition Legitimation Supply chain management Organizational culture Product innovation Endowment effect Explanation Production function Causal chain Organizational theory Working hypothesis Principle of compositionality Modal logic Calculation Axiom Commutative property Predictive power First-order logic Mental representation Prediction Inference Sociological theory Identity (social science) Organizational behavior Theory of Forms Quantifier (logic) Consideration Organizational performance Social movement Causality Predicate logic Conceptualization (information science) Organization Cognitive anthropology Ontology (information science) Membership function (mathematics) Theory Organizational architecture Notation Premises Level of analysis The Conceptual Framework Explanatory power Dynamic logic (modal logic) Emergence Intension Organizational structure Theorem Logic Operationalization Obsolescence Organizational ecology Centrality Material implication (rule of inference) Market segmentation Probability Product design Classical logic Organizational unit (computing) Form classification Instance (computer science) Meta-analysis Intensional logic Non-monotonic logic Object language Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Set theory Social theory Organizational identity Unification (computer science)
ISBN:	0691131066, 9780691134505, 9780691131061, 0691134502, 9781400843015, 1400843014
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Table of Contents:

Logics of organization theory: audiences, codes, and ecologies -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Language Matters -- Part 1: Audiences, Producers, and Codes -- Chapter Two: Clusters and Labels -- Chapter Three: Types and Categories -- Chapter Four: Forms and Populations -- Chapter Five: Identity and Audience -- Part 2: Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Age Dependence -- Chapter Six: A Nonmonotonic Logic -- Chapter Seven: Integrating Theories of Age Dependence -- Part 3: Ecological Niches -- Chapter Eight: Niches and Audiences -- Chapter Nine: Niches and Competitors -- Chapter Ten: Resource Partitioning -- Part 4: Organizational Change -- Chapter Eleven: Cascading Change -- Chapter Twelve: Opacity and Asperity -- Chapter Thirteen: Niche Expansion -- Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions -- Appendix A: Glossary of Theoretical Terms -- Appendix B: Glossary of Symbols -- Appendix C: Some Elementary First-Order Logic -- Appendix D: Notation for Monotonic Functions -- Appendix E: The Modal Language of Codes -- Bibliography -- Index
Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Chapter One: Language Matters Chapter Two: Clusters and Labels Chapter Three: Types and Categories Chapter Four: Forms and Populations Chapter Five: Identity and Audience Chapter Six: A Nonmonotonic Logic Chapter Seven: Integrating Theories of Age Dependence Chapter Eight: Niches and Audiences Chapter Nine: Niches and Competitors Chapter Ten: Resource Partitioning Chapter Eleven: Cascading Change Chapter Twelve: Opacity and Asperity Chapter Thirteen: Niche Expansion Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C. Appendix D. Appendix E. Bibliography Index
Index Bibliography Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols Chapter 14. Conclusions Chapter 13. Niche Expansion Chapter 12. Opacity and Asperity Chapter 11. Cascading Change Chapter 10. Resource Partitioning Chapter 9. Niches and Competitors Part 3. Ecological Niches Chapter 8. Niches and Audiences Chapter 7. Integrating Theories of Age Dependence Chapter 6. A Nonmonotonic Logic Part 2. Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Age Dependence Chapter 5. Identity and Audience Chapter 4. Forms and Populations Chapter 3. Types and Categories Part 1. Audiences, Producers, and Codes Chapter 2. Clusters and Labels Chapter 1. Language Matters Preface Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication Table of Contents Cover
9.3 Niche Overlap -- 9.4 Niche Width Revisited -- 9.5 Convexity of the Niche -- 9.6 Environmental Change -- Chapter 10. Resource Partitioning -- 10.1 Scale Advantage -- 10.2 Market Center -- 10.3 Market Segments and Crowding -- 10.4 Dynamics of Partitioning -- 10.5 Implications of Category Membership -- Part 4. Organizational Change -- Chapter 11. Cascading Change -- 11.1 Identity and Inertia -- 11.2 Organizational Architecture -- 11.3 Cascades -- 11.4 Architecture and Cascades -- 11.5 Intricacy and Viscosity -- 11.6 Missed Opportunities -- 11.7 Change and Mortality -- Chapter 12. Opacity and Asperity -- 12.1 Limited Foresight: Opacity -- 12.2 Cultural Opposition: Asperity -- 12.3 Opacity, Asperity, and Reorganization -- 12.4 Change and Mortality -- Chapter 13. Niche Expansion -- 13.1 Expanded Engagement -- 13.2 Architectural and Cultural Context -- 13.3 Age and Asperity -- 13.4 Distant Expansion -- 13.5 Expansion and Convexity -- Chapter 14. Conclusions -- 14.1 Theoretical Unification -- 14.2 Common Conceptual Core -- 14.3 Inconsistencies Resolved -- 14.4 Theoretical Progress -- 14.5 Empirical Implications -- Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms -- Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols -- Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic -- Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions -- Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes -- Bibliography -- Index
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Language Matters -- 1.1 Languages for Theory Building -- 1.2 Using Dynamic Logic -- 1.3 Partial Memberships: Fuzziness -- 1.4 Organizational Ecology -- 1.5 Unification Projects -- Part 1. Audiences, Producers, and Codes -- Chapter 2. Clusters and Labels -- 2.1 Seeds for Categories and Forms -- 2.2 Domains -- 2.3 Similarity -- 2.4 Similarity Clusters -- 2.5 Labels -- 2.6 Extensional Consensus -- 2.7 Complex Labels -- Chapter 3. Types and Categories -- 3.1 Schemata -- 3.2 Types -- 3.3 Intensional Semantic Consensus -- 3.4 Categories -- 3.5 Intrinsic Appeal and Category Valence -- Chapter 4. Forms and Populations -- 4.1 Test Codes and Defaults -- 4.2 Taken-for-Grantedness -- 4.3 Legitimation and Forms -- 4.4 Populations -- 4.5 Density Dependence Revisited -- 4.6 Delegitimation -- Chapter 5. Identity and Audience -- 5.1 Identity As Default -- 5.2 Multiple Category Memberships -- 5.3 Code Clash -- 5.4 Identities and Populations -- 5.5 Structure of the Audience -- Part 2. Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Age Dependence -- Chapter 6. A Nonmonotonic Logic -- 6.1 Beyond First-Order Logic -- 6.2 Generalizations -- 6.3 Nonmonotonic Reasoning -- 6.4 A Prècis of the Formal Approach -- 6.5 Chaining Probabilistic Arguments -- 6.6 Closest-Possible-Worlds Construction -- 6.7 Falsification -- Chapter 7. Integrating Theories of Age Dependence -- 7.1 Capability and Endowment -- 7.2 First Unification Attempt -- 7.3 Obsolescence -- 7.4 Second Unification Attempt -- Part 3. Ecological Niches -- Chapter 8. Niches and Audiences -- 8.1 Tastes, Positions, and Offerings -- 8.2 Category Niche -- 8.3 Organizational Niche -- 8.4 Fundamental Niche -- 8.5 Implications of Category Membership -- 8.6 Metric Audience Space -- Chapter 9. Niches and Competitors -- 9.1 Fitness -- 9.2 Realized Niche
Chapter 6. A Nonmonotonic Logic
Chapter 7. Integrating Theories of Age Dependence
Chapter 1. Language Matters
Chapter 9. Niches and Competitors
PART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE --
Index
Chapter 10. Resource Partitioning
Chapter 13. Niche Expansion
Chapter 14. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Identity and Audience
Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms
Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes
PART 3. ECOLOGICAL NICHES --
Chapter 12. Opacity and Asperity
Chapter 8. Niches and Audiences
Preface
Chapter 11. Cascading Change
Chapter 3. Types and Categories
PART 2. NONMONOTONIC REASONING: AGE DEPENDENCE --
Chapter 2. Clusters and Labels
PART 1. AUDIENCES, PRODUCERS, AND CODES --
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Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions
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Contents
Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols
Frontmatter --
Chapter 4. Forms and Populations
Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic
Bibliography