Critical Realism, Organization Theory, Methodology, and the Emerging Science of Reconfiguration

Some Claims Made for Critical Realism in Economics: Two Case Studies

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2006-7-37-52 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 37-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G. Hodgson

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Critical Realism ◽

British Economy ◽

Workplace Organization ◽

Relative Decline ◽

Rate Of Profit

The article critically examines claims made by two prominent critical realists on behalf of their philosophy - on the Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and on the workplace organization theory of the relative decline of the British economy. These two case studies raise important questions concerning critical realism in economics. The character of critical realism as a movement is also analyzed.

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Infostructure, Technology, and Organization

Informing View of Organization - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2760-3.ch004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 125-177

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Social Media ◽

Big Data ◽

Organizational Structure ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Critical Realism ◽

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Process Ontology ◽

Computer Mediated

The chapter discusses informing structure (infostructure)—the formal and stable patterns of relationships between data segments and in information technology (IT) arrangements. Infostructure parallels and complements the formal social structure of organization. The discussion covers infostructure dimensions and their role in changing organizational structure. The infostructure of big data is explained. Informal organizational structure is, then, discussed in the context of computer mediated communication (CMC) and social media. Social media are framed as a type of business, and a new concept of social media is proposed. The chapter also discusses technology and IT from the perspectives of organization theory and IS. Various ontologies of IT and information systems are reviewed, including currently popular sociomateriality and critical realism. A new model based on the emergent process ontology is described, and the potential of human agency is argued.

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Review of Perspectives on Organization Theory.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/027988 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 412-412

Author(s):

No authorship indicated

Keyword(s):

Organization Theory

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Beyond Market: Institutions of Governance in the Complex World (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2009 - Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom)

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2010-1-82-98 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 82-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ya. Kuzminov ◽

M. Yudkevich

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Behavioral Economics ◽

Nobel Prize ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Development Studies ◽

Complex World ◽

Market Institutions ◽

Institutional Economic

The article surveys the main lines of research conducted by Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom - 2009 Nobel Prize winners in economics. Williamsons and Ostroms contribution to understanding the nature of institutions and choice over institutional options are discussed. The role their work played in evolution of modern institutional economic theory is analyzed in detail, as well as interconnections between Williamsons and Ostroms ideas and the most recent research developments in organization theory, behavioral economics and development studies.

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Balanced Scorecard in the strategic planning of a construction company

Journal of Global Management Sciences ◽

10.32829/gms.v1i1.57 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Roberth Frias ◽

Maria Medina

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Strategic Management ◽

Balanced Scorecard ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Management Control ◽

Management Tool ◽

The Balanced Scorecard ◽

Construction Company ◽

Construction Companies ◽

The Impact

This research focused on the strategic management tool Balanced Scorecard and strategic planning, as a guide to guide the management of companies, allowing communication and the functionality of the strategy using KPIs that allow to identify, maintain control and increase efficiency and the achievement of optimal results. For the deductive hypothetical analysis, the specific factors that affect business management performance were grouped into two variables: Balanced Scorecard and Strategic Planning. The objective of the work was to demonstrate the impact of the Balanced Scorecard in the strategic planning of a construction company. In order to support the research, the following theories were approached: the Financial Theory, the Economic Theory of the Company, the Transaction Costs, the Network Theory, the Organization Theory, the Dependence on Resources, the Strategic Management Theory and the Business Diagnosis Theory. The result obtained confirms the hypothesis that there is a significant incidence of the Balanced Scorecard in the strategic planning of construction companies. In conclusion, the construction company has obtained significant improvements in the results in each of the indicators evaluated with the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard, demonstrating improvements in their management results, affirming that there is better performance and management control allowing them to achieve the organizational objectives set.

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Are Public Bureaucracies Supposed to Be High Reliability Organizations?

Global Perspectives ◽

10.1525/gp.2020.17643 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wolfgang Seibel

Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Goal Attainment ◽

High Reliability ◽

Human Action ◽

High Reliability Organizations ◽

Fine Grained ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Public Bureaucracy ◽

Account Standard

This article addresses the question of to what extent conventional theories of high reliability organizations and normal accidents theory are applicable to public bureaucracy. Empirical evidence suggests precisely this. Relevant cases are, for instance, collapsing buildings and bridges due to insufficient supervision of engineering by the relevant authorities, infants dying at the hands of their own parents due to misperceptions and neglect on the part of child protection agencies, uninterrupted serial killings due to a lack of coordination among police services, or improper planning and risk assessment in the preparation of mass events such as soccer games or street parades. The basic argument is that conceptualizing distinct and differentiated causal mechanisms is useful for developing more fine-grained variants of both normal accident theory and high reliability organization theory that take into account standard pathologies of public bureaucracies and inevitable trade-offs connected to their political embeddedness in democratic and rule-of-law-based systems to which belong the tensions between responsiveness and responsibility and between goal attainment and system maintenance. This, the article argues, makes it possible to identify distinct points of intervention at which permissive conditions with the potential to trigger risk-generating human action can be neutralized while the threshold that separates risk-generating human action from actual disaster can be raised to a level that makes disastrous outcomes less probable.

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