LEADER 04413nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910461389203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-37992-9 010 $a9786613379924 010 $a1-4008-4301-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400843015 035 $a(CKB)2670000000133082 035 $a(EBL)827794 035 $a(OCoLC)646517503 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000570949 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11351172 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570949 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611876 035 $a(PQKB)10742843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC827794 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37010 035 $a(DE-B1597)447588 035 $a(OCoLC)1054867293 035 $a(OCoLC)979780172 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843015 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL827794 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10521867 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL337992 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000133082 100 $a20061204d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLogics of organization theory$b[electronic resource] $eaudiences, codes, and ecologies /$fMichael T. Hannan, La?szlo? Po?los, Glenn R. Carroll 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (381 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13106-6 311 $a0-691-13450-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [339]-354) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tChapter 1. Language Matters -- $tPART 1. AUDIENCES, PRODUCERS, AND CODES -- $tChapter 2. Clusters and Labels -- $tChapter 3. Types and Categories -- $tChapter 4. Forms and Populations -- $tChapter 5. Identity and Audience -- $tPART 2. NONMONOTONIC REASONING: AGE DEPENDENCE -- $tChapter 6. A Nonmonotonic Logic -- $tChapter 7. Integrating Theories of Age Dependence -- $tPART 3. ECOLOGICAL NICHES -- $tChapter 8. Niches and Audiences -- $tChapter 9. Niches and Competitors -- $tChapter 10. Resource Partitioning -- $tPART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -- $tChapter 11. Cascading Change -- $tChapter 12. Opacity and Asperity -- $tChapter 13. Niche Expansion -- $tChapter 14. Conclusions -- $tAppendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms -- $tAppendix B. Glossary of Symbols -- $tAppendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic -- $tAppendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions -- $tAppendix E. The Modal Language of Codes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBuilding 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. Logics of Organization Theory sets forth and applies a new language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. In doing so, not only does it mark a major advance in organizational theory, but it also draws lessons for theory building elsewhere in the social sciences. Organizational research typically analyzes organizations in categories such as "bank," "hospital," or "university." These categories have been treated as crisp analytical constructs designed by researchers. But sociologists increasingly view categories as constructed by audiences. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the new language of theory building to organizational ecology. It reconstructs and integrates four central theory fragments, and in so doing reveals unexpected connections and new insights. 606 $aOrganizational sociology$xMethodology 606 $aNonmonotonic reasoning 606 $aCategories (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOrganizational sociology$xMethodology. 615 0$aNonmonotonic reasoning. 615 0$aCategories (Philosophy) 676 $a302.3/501 700 $aHannan$b Michael T$077630 701 $aPo?los$b La?szlo?$0403137 701 $aCarroll$b Glenn$0121320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461389203321 996 $aLogics of organization theory$92489642 997 $aUNINA