Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems

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Title: Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems
Abstract/Description: A comparative model of organizations as interpretation systems is proposed. The model describes four interpretation modes: enacting, discovering, undirected viewing, and conditioned viewing. Each mode is determined by (1) management's beliefs about the environment and (2) organizational intrusiveness. Interpretation modes are hypothesized to be associated with organizational differences in environmental scanning, equivocality reduction, strategy, and decision making.
Author/creator: Daft, Richard L.; Weick, Karl E.
Date: 1984
In publication: Academy of Management Review
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 284-295
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical
Keywords: COMPLEX organizations; DECISION making; ENVIRONMENTAL scanning; INDUSTRIAL management; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; ORGANIZATIONAL research; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; STRATEGIC planning; WORK environment
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0363-7425
DOI: 10.5465/amr.1984.4277657
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Academy of Management); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation: Daft, R. L., & Weick, K. E. (1984). Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems. Academy of Management Review, 9(2), 284–295. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1984.4277657
Cited in: Cross-Sector Research on Continuous Learning and Improvement
Abbreviation: AMR

Item sets: OB Citations - Cross-Sector Research on Learning and Improvement

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