ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book attempts to take some of the findings in the international Social Ontology Project—a philosophy of collective intentions and society—into the empirical analysis of organizations. It looks into organizations that fit into all three categories, organizations the actors like, are neutral to and perhaps detest. The book investigates the separation of public and private spheres in modern societies, the competing narratives of the distribution of power between the spheres, nearly the physical space between public and private sectors, the distribution of people and organizations in the two sectors and so on. It focuses on presence of those narratives for in the competing narratives of fisheries organization over time in Norway, those narratives both at the organizational and personal (mental) levels of discourse. The book outlines speech-act theory demands materials on actual speech acting in situations of deliberations about situations and decisions.
