ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the problematic status and nature of the concept of ‘organization’. Specifically, we wish to argue that the concept of organization, although one of the most pervasive processes in modern life, is also one of the least understood, despite the industry applied to it by organizational studies. The reason for this, we suggest, is our urge to see organization as a ‘natural’ feature of the world — hence we privilege organizational correlates such as unity, identity, permanence, foundation, structure, etc., over ‘anti-organization’ processes such as dissonance, disparity, change, etc.
