{"product_id":"logics-of-organization-theory-9780691134505","title":"Logics of Organization Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSets forth and applies a different language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the different language of theory building to organizational ecology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book will appeal to different audiences, making the book itself an interesting case study for the theory developed in it. The broader message of the book, developing a new set of tools that aid theorizing in sociology and the administrative sciences, will appeal to those interested in social science methodology. But first and foremost, it is of interest to researchers working on organization theory in general and on organizational ecology in particular. It goes substantially beyond earlier formalizations of organizational ecology published in the last decade, with a radical shift in focus toward the whole process of theory building.\"--Administrative Science Quarterly \"Logics of Organizational Theory deserves to be read and discussed by everyone interested in organizations and in the method of developing sociological theory.\"--Michele Lamont, American Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi     Chapter 1: Language Matters 1  1.1 Languages for Theory Building 1  1.2 Using Dynamic Logic 5  1.3 Partial Memberships: Fuzziness 12  1.4 Organizational Ecology 18  1.5 Unification Projects 21      PART 1. AUDIENCES, PRODUCERS, AND CODES 27  Chapter 2: Clusters and Labels 29  2.1 Seeds for Categories and Forms 32  2.2 Domains 34  2.3 Similarity 37  2.4 Similarity Clusters 41  2.5 Labels 47  2.6 Extensional Consensus 52  2.7 Complex Labels 56      Chapter 3: Types and Categories 59  3.1 Schemata 60  3.2 Types 65  3.3 Intensional Semantic Consensus 67  3.4 Categories 69  3.5 Intrinsic Appeal and Category Valence 71      Chapter 4: Forms and Populations 78  4.1 Test Codes and Defaults 79  4.2 Taken-for-Grantedness 82  4.3 Legitimation and Forms 84  4.4 Populations 85  4.5 Density Dependence Revisited 89  4.6 Delegitimation 96      Chapter 5: Identity and Audience 100  5.1 Identity As Default 101  5.2 Multiple Category Memberships 107  5.3 Code Clash 109  5.4 Identities and Populations 110  5.5 Structure of the Audience 111      PART 2. NONMONOTONIC REASONING: AGE DEPENDENCE 121  Chapter 6: A Nonmonotonic Logic 123  6.1 Beyond First-Order Logic 124  6.2 Generalizations 127  6.3 Nonmonotonic Reasoning 130  6.4 A Precis of the Formal Approach 133  6.5 Chaining Probabilistic Arguments 142  6.6 Closest-Possible-Worlds Construction 143  6.7 Falsification 145      Chapter 7: Integrating Theories of Age Dependence 150  7.1 Capability and Endowment 152  7.2 First Unification Attempt 157  7.3 Obsolescence 161  7.4 Second Unification Attempt 163      PART 3. ECOLOGICAL NICHES 169  Chapter 8: Niches and Audiences 171  8.1 Tastes, Positions, and Offerings 174  8.2 Category Niche 177  8.3 Organizational Niche 178  8.4 Fundamental Niche 183  8.5 Implications of Category Membership 186  8.6 Metric Audience Space 187      Chapter 9: Niches and Competitors 191  9.1 Fitness 191  9.2 Realized Niche 193  9.3 Niche Overlap 194  9.4 Niche Width Revisited 198  9.5 Convexity of the Niche 203  9.6 Environmental Change 206      Chapter 10: Resource Partitioning 209  10.1 Scale Advantage 210  10.2 Market Center 214  10.3 Market Segments and Crowding 215  10.4 Dynamics of Partitioning 220  10.5 Implications of Category Membership 226      PART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 229  Chapter 11: Cascading Change 231  11.1 Identity and Inertia 232  11.2 Organizational Architecture 235  11.3 Cascades 236  11.4 Architecture and Cascades 239  11.5 Intricacy and Viscosity 246  11.6 Missed Opportunities 248  11.7 Change and Mortality 253      Chapter 12: Opacity and Asperity 256  12.1 Limited Foresight: Opacity 256  12.2 Cultural Opposition: Asperity 261  12.3 Opacity, Asperity, and Reorganization 265  12.4 Change and Mortality 268      Chapter 13: Niche Expansion 271  13.1 Expanded Engagement 271  13.2 Architectural and Cultural Context 276  13.3 Age and Asperity 278  13.4 Distant Expansion 279  13.5 Expansion and Convexity 281      Chapter 14: Conclusions 286  14.1 Theoretical Unification 287  14.2 Common Conceptual Core 289  14.3 Inconsistencies Resolved 291  14.4 Theoretical Progress 293  14.5 Empirical Implications 298      Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms 305  Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols 313  Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic 321  Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions 331  Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes 334  Bibliography 339  Index 355","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403754250583,"sku":"9780691134505","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691134505.jpg?v=1730484448","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/logics-of-organization-theory-9780691134505","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}