Perspective - Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
Perspective - Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
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视角——在组织理论中寻找组织：组织作为社会行动者的元理论
DOI：
10.1287/orsc.1090.0443
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
D. Whetten
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作者：
Brayden G. King;Teppo Felin;D. Whetten
组织理论是一个没有主人公的理论。在组织学术中，组织通常被描绘为个人的集合、环境的实例化、社会网络中的节点、群体的成员或组织过程的捆绑。本文希望强调理解、解释和研究组织的持久的、类似名词的性质的必要性。我们通过考察作为社会参与者的组织的独特之处，将组织置于更广泛的社会场景中。我们提出了两个假设，作为我们将组织概念化为社会行为者的基础：外部归因和意向性。然后，我们强调构成独特的组织分析观点的核心的重要问题和影响。
Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the organization in a broader social landscape by examining what is unique about the organization as a social actor. We propose two assumptions that underlie our conceptualization of organizations as social actors: external attribution and intentionality. We then highlight important questions and implications forming the core of a distinctively organizational analytical perspective.