ABSTRACT

System, Actor and Process: Keywords in Organization Studies is intended as an epistemological ‘compass’ to navigate through the multifaceted key concepts typically used in organizational practice and research.

The book illustrates thirty-four keywords using a tripartite structure: each keyword is briefly discussed from three points of view, namely the system-centered, actor-centered and process-centered conception of organization, which reflects the options emerging from contemporary epistemological debate in organizational studies and, more generally, in social sciences, namely objectivism, subjectivism, and the Weberian "third way". 

Primarily addressed to researchers and academics in organization studies, this book is also a useful resource for undergraduate or postgraduate students, for whom it may represent a thorough introduction to organizational concepts. It will also be a valuable tool for managers to apply in their everyday practice.

part |105 pages

Keywords

chapter |3 pages

Action Research

chapter |2 pages

Autonomy

chapter |2 pages

Classification

chapter |3 pages

Competence

chapter |3 pages

Epistemological Alternatives

chapter |3 pages

Formal and Informal

chapter |4 pages

Human Resource Management

chapter |2 pages

Information System

chapter |3 pages

Job and Role

chapter |3 pages

Model

chapter |3 pages

Movement and Social Action

chapter |3 pages

Objectivity

chapter |4 pages

Occupational Wellbeing

chapter |3 pages

Order and Disorder

chapter |3 pages

Organizational Assessment

chapter |3 pages

Organizational Communication

chapter |3 pages

Organizational Culture

chapter |2 pages

Organizational Environment

chapter |3 pages

Organizational Learning

chapter |4 pages

Organizational Socialization

chapter |3 pages

Organizational Structure

chapter |3 pages

Participation

chapter |2 pages

Power

chapter |4 pages

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

chapter |3 pages

Rationality

chapter |3 pages

Regulation

chapter |4 pages

Simulation

chapter |2 pages

Social Action

chapter |2 pages

Social Institution

chapter |3 pages

Strategy

chapter |3 pages

Technology

chapter |4 pages

Theory and Theoretical Criticism

chapter |3 pages

Training

chapter |5 pages

Values and Social Action