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Category Archives: Organizations
Autopoiesis Theory and Organization: An Overview
This introductory chapter elaborates some of the key ideas which shaped the concept of this book. The overriding idea is that autopoiesis theory has the potential to provide a unifying framework for the study of organizational phenomena in the 21st century. Although organization … Continue reading
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Economics of Social Capital: Implications for Organizational Performance
The role of social interactions and relationships at the individual, group/team, and organizational levels is becoming increasingly significant in today’s workplace. Relationships in an organization may provide some unplanned opportunities, and social capital is considered a new tool with which … Continue reading
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Getting on board: Organizational socialization and the contribution of social capital
When starting a new job, newcomers strive to learn the tasks and expectations of their work, decipher the unwritten rules or norms of the culture, and achieve membership in the organization. The literature on the socialization of newcomers in organizations typically links success … Continue reading
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Mechanisms of Social Capital in Organizations: How Team Cognition Influences Employee Commitment and Engagement
While previous research has shown that organizational social capital benefits organizations and creates performance gains, most of this work examined this relationship at the macro level based on organizational aggregates. In this article, we study organizational social capital effects at the micro … Continue reading
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Emerging Autopoietic Communities – Scalability of Knowledge Transfer in Complex Systems
Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities at different scales up to … Continue reading
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A Biological Theory of Knowledge and Applications to Real World Organizations
This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper’s evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We discuss how this body … Continue reading
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The Viable System Model as a Framework for Understanding Organizations
The Viable System Model (VSM) is not a new idea. Created by Stafford Beer over twenty years ago, it has been used extensively as a conceptual tool for understanding organizations, redesigning them (where appropriate) and supporting the management of change. Despite its successful application … Continue reading
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Will Collective Intelligence Change the way we Work?
We’re in the midst of a transformation in how businesses are organized. Typical corporate hierarchies are starting to look overrated, and changes in coordination technology have the power to make work and innovation even more democratic. However, according to MIT … Continue reading
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Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems
The social, political, economic and ecological environment in which the organizations are immerse, has forced them to look for mechanisms that allow them to give agile and economic answers, in addition to show and generate flexibility and adaptation, that is … Continue reading
A Cognitive Interpretation to Organizational Complexity
Organizational theory has construed complexity as an objective characteristic of either the structure or the behavior of an organization. We argue that, in order to further our understanding, complexity should be understood in terms of the human cognition of a … Continue reading
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