Organizations Strategy and Society

<p>Organizations are ubiquitous from clubs and associations to firms and public agencies. They confer meaning to all of us and our attachment to and membership of organizations have a profound effect on all areas of our lives. However in our increasingly turbulent world these organizations run the risk of disappearing or losing their legitimacy creating a sense of pointlessness and absurdity.</p><p>Organizations Strategy and Society: The Orgology of Disorganized <i>Worlds</i> draws on neo-institutional and strategy theories of competitive advantage and develops an integrative approach to theorizing organizations and their behaviors termed ‘<i>orgology</i>’. It explains that organizations can act strategically to protect and renew the meaning that individuals give to their lives. In so doing organizations that survive and thrive impose their logics on society thereby influencing what is legitimate or not. In turn individuals must reinterpret their multiple associations with organizations and contribute to reinforcing or inhibiting social evolutions. This new way of understanding organizations’ relationships with society results in a reconsideration of management and the role of individuals in building their future.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students at all levels to researchers in organizational studies strategic management and sociology as well as to people willing to reorganize their world.</p>