Designing Organisation

Paul Beynon-Davies ()
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Paul Beynon-Davies: Cardiff Business School

Chapter 4 in Business Analysis and Design, 2021, pp 53-73 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we examine the nature of organisation and come to the conclusion that the institution of organisation emerges from systems of action. We further conclude that three coupled patterns of organisation are important to domains of organisation—articulation, communication and coordination. The patterning of organisation can be understood through the way in which actors enact packages of action, which we conveniently refer to as roles. Actors include not only humans but technology systems and other artefacts such as data structures. Hence, contemporary domains of organisation are best conceived of in terms of design and analysis as systems of socio-technical action.

Keywords: Organisation; Emergence; System; Pattern; Role; Socio-technical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67962-0_4

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