"Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization" est paru

Michael Grothe-Hammer, Héloïse Berkowitz, Olivier Berthod. Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization. Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations, pp.30-53, 2022. ⟨hal-03699112⟩.

Résumé
In this chapter, we assemble an overview of contemporary theories and perspectives on organizational research that share one commonality: a renewed interest in decisions as a central unit of analysis (Ahrne et al., 2016b; Apelt et al., 2017). This “new decisionism” (pun intended) encompasses perspectives as diverse as the sociological systems theory devised by Luhmann (2018), the partial organization approach introduced by Ahrne and Brunsson (2011), scholarship on meta-organizations (Ahrne et al., 2016a), and the concept of degrees of organizationality (Dobusch and Schoeneborn, 2015). Second, we use this overview to outline the basic pillars of a unified theory. Ahrne et al. (2016b, p. 99) suggested that a combined perspective rooted in decisions could put “organization studies at the heart of the social sciences” and “offer fundamental insights into the workings of our world.” In this chapter, we submit to this call and want to show how collapsing all four perspectives into one overall theory offers the tools we need to explain what organization looks like in the twenty-first century (Brummans et al., 2014; Schoeneborn et al., 2019; Wilhoit and Kisselburgh, 2015). Specifically, we shall argue that the aforementioned perspectives can be treated as facets of one overarching theory that captures traditional as well as more elusive organizational forms. Such a perspective holds the potential to tackle organization theory’s existential crises by providing a new understanding of organization and its implications for modern society. We shall call this perspective the decisional organization theory, or decisional OT for short.

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