Building the theories of organizations is difficult: the theories are partial and the "popular" categories are unclear. Commonly used tools - the first order logic and the basic group theory - are not suitable for dealing with these complications.

Here, three senior authorities revisit the theory of the organization. Defines the logic of the theory of regulation and applies a new language to construct the theory based on non-utopian logic and the theory of a blurry set. By doing so, he not only represents significant progress in organizational theory, but also draws lessons to build theories elsewhere in social sciences.

Organizational research usually analyzes organizations in categories such as "bank", "hospital" or "university". These categories have been treated as fragile analytical structures designed by researchers.

But sociologists are increasingly looking at the groups created by the public. This book is based on cognitive psychology and anthropology in order to develop a theory based on the public of organizational categories.

It applies this framework and new language to build the theory on the regulatory environment. Reconstructs and integrates four parts of central theory, thereby revealing unexpected connections and new insights..

I want that book.