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

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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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