Operativity And Typicality

The present text discusses sense-theoretical foundations of recent organizational research and makes them visible by analyzing epistemological terms of current discourses in organizational science (cognition, institution, practice, culture, communication, semantics). In a further step, communication is discussed as an operative guiding concept for understanding organizational reproduction and networking and applied to various organizational phenomena (managementization, standardization, circulation of ideas, translation, design). This book thus sees itself both as a contribution to theory development in organizational research and as a contribution to the research field of "(world) society and organization." Overall, the individual studies in this text discuss and explore the relevance of an epistemological, social and societal foundation of organization theory on the basis of an operational theory of meaning.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Well-founded overview of current topic and theory discussions Connective discourses in social, cultural and communication studies With application references for decision-making and management practice

Autorentext

Dr. Thomas Drepper is a private lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Lucerne.

Inhalt

Introduction: Basic questions of a sense-theoretical organization research .- Sense: Operativity and Typicity .- Communicabilities: Sense Movements and Sense Determinations.