Search results for ""Author Rodrigo Magalhães""
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizational Knowledge and Technology: An Action-Oriented Perspective on Organization and Information Systems
This book attempts to make sense of a new area of integrated study, namely information systems and information technology (IS/IT) and the organization. It also aims to bring this mix into the broader theme of complexity as applied to organization and management and to draw useful conclusions about how to organize and how to manage IS/IT in the knowledge era. The author argues in favour of a more action-oriented - as opposed to planning dominated - approach to information systems management. Key topics discussed include: complexity, enacted cognition and autopoiesis applied to organizations; managerial action as a foil to the prevailing managerial paradigm; managerial action and the formation of cultural knowledge contexts in organizations and an holistic approach to information systems development. The book concludes with consideration of the problems surrounding epistemology.Organizational Knowledge and Technology will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers working in the areas of technology, management, information systems and organizational science as well as information systems managers.
£105.00
Palgrave Macmillan Designing Organizations for the Betterment of Society
Introduction.- Chapter 1.- Chapter 2 - Non-Representational Thought, Ethics and Aesthetics.- Chapter 3 Organizational Artefacts.- Chapter 4 The Case for Organization Design as a Non-Unitary Construct.- Chapter 5 - Foundations of Holistic Organization Design.- Chapter 6 - The Hypothesis of Organization Design as Meaning: Sensemaking and Structuration.- Chapter 7 The Hypothesis of Organization Design as Meaning: The Organization Design Gestalt.- Chapter 8 Aestho-Instrumental Coordination and the Ethic-Aesthetic Vision.- Chapter 9 - Organizational Morality through Aesthetic Leadership, Reflective Practice and Responsible Management.- Conclusion.
£34.99
Emerald Publishing Limited Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice
"Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice" considers the potential of autopoiesis theory to provide a new unifying framework for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational phenomena as emergent phenomena. The papers in this volume integrate open systems theory with the pioneering work of Maturana and Varela (1980, 1992) on autopoiesis in biological systems. Viewing organizations as living systems opens a powerful new perspective for describing, explaining, and even predicting organizational phenomena across the full spectrum of organizations and environments, from stable to highly dynamic. This collection of papers brings into focus both the great potential and the important challenges facing organizational thinkers in building new organization theory and deriving new principles for management practice based on autopoiesis theory. The topics include the fundamental features of autopoiesis theory, the key conceptual issues surrounding the use of autopoiesis concepts in representing and analyzing organizations as living systems, and the practical applications of autopoiesis theory in designing organizations and managing organizational processes.
£102.01
