Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

by Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Laszlo Polos

Book Overview

Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools--first-order logic and its foundational set theory--are ill-suited for handling these complications. Here, three leading authorities rethink organization theory. Logics of Organization Theory sets forth and applies a new language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. In doing so,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134502
• ISBN13: 9780691134505
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"