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Capturing Semiotic and Social Factors of Organizational Evolution

verfasst von : Alysson Bolognesi Prado, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas

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Abstract

Enterprises are always subject to internal and external pressures for change. Organizational Semiotics explains the structure of social norms, which allows a group of people to act together in a coordinated way for certain purposes. When a novelty requires reshaping this structure, Actor-Network Theory provides sociological insights to understand the involved factors. This paper delineates a method combining these theoretical sources for clarifying and representing the social forces involved in organizational changes. All actors – people, technical devices and other objects – are modeled in the same social level, tracing the flow of interests back to their sources, enabling to negotiate changes with the appropriate stakeholders.

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Metadaten
Titel
Capturing Semiotic and Social Factors of Organizational Evolution
verfasst von
Alysson Bolognesi Prado
Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
Copyright-Jahr
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09492-2_16