ABSTRACT
This chapter occurs within the continuity of debates that lead a particular field of study which some call 'the Theory of Organizations'. A theory is an explanation and an attempt to explain a segment of experience in the world. The chapter organizes around Giddens' human agent's capacity of responsibility and it examines the elements of the Theory of Structuration. During this, the capacity responsibility is situated in comparison with the other abilities of Giddens' human agent and in relation to the structural elements that compose the social reality. In its spatio-temporal geography, Giddens makes the co-presence a significant condition of the interactions between human agents. Organizational theories inspired by Giddens' works highlight the dependent relation between the organization and the individuals: the organization is the result of human actions. The chapter defines the co-presence and linked up it with the absence and it explores feasible alternatives to restore to the human agent its capacity of responsibility in conditions of absence.
