Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies

Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools—first-order logic and its foundational set theory—are ill-suited for handling these complications. Here, three leading authorities rethink organization theory. Logics of Organization Theory sets forth and applies a new language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. In doing so, not only does it mark a major advance in organization...