BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Organization Theory
- the body of research and knowledge concerning organizations. Organization theory originally focused primarily on the organization as a unit, as opposed to organization behavior, which explored individual and group behavior within the organization. Organization behavior emerged as a separate discipline in the late 1950s and early 1960s but there remains a large amount of overlap between the two. Organization theory covers a variety of areas including organization structure and organizational psychology.
Additional Resources
- The Evolution Of Management And Organization Theory
- The paper traces the history of management. The concept of management evolved because of the need for public management in ancient cities. An organization is a social entity consisting of a group of people working towards common goal. The organization theory spells out the dynamics of these groups in different...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Management Theory And The Environment
- Environmental ethics and business have a close relationship. Ethics consists of moral guidelines as to what is right and what is wrong for the organization. Corporate Social Responsibility CSR spells out an organization’s commitment towards society and is a measure of the organization’s social responsiveness. The CSR principles must be...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Putting IT Theory Into Practice
- The advent of Information Technology IT has resulted in the organization of management and optimization of IT resources like networks, PCs, databases, and Unix servers in an organization. However, of late the trend has changed. The Chief Information Officer CIO of an organization focuses on strategies that are less technology-driven...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Entrepreneurship And The Economic Theory Of The Firm
- Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Knight and some Austrian school economists aligns naturally with the theory of the firm. Because judgment cannot be purchased on...
- White papers 2004-08-17
- Communications in Managing Project Organizations
- The purpose of the organizational theory is to discuss the systematic study of organizations by scholars. Concepts are obtained from living ongoing organizations. It helps people understand, diagnose, and respond to organizational needs and problems. Organizations are social entities that are goal directed, deliberately structured activity systems with a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Re-assessment of Road Accident
- This report examines the literature on involuntary, high-consequence, low-probability IHL events like nuclear power plant meltdowns to determine what can be applied to the problem of voluntary, low-consequence, high-probability VLH events like traffic accidents. Five closely related literatures on IHL events are examined: "normal" accident theory, system reliability theory, highly...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Extending the Theory to Meet the Practice of Insurance
- This paper argues that there is a systematic tendency for practice to diverge from theory in insurance markets. The paper explores several reasons for the discrepancy between theory and practice. The paper discusses about themes about the operation of insurance markets in theory and practice. It also introduces areas where...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Basic Motivation Concepts
- The presentation named basic motivation concepts infers about various motivation theories and their frameworks. Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward the attainment of a goal. It mainly discuses the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s two-factor theory, reinforcement theory, equity theory...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Chemical Organization Theory As A Theoretical Base For Chemical Computing
- In chemical computing, the result of a computation appears as an emergent global behavior based on local reaction rules. For programming chemical systems a theoretical method to cope with that emergent behavior is desired. This paper demonstrates how the chemical organization theory can help in designing and understanding chemical computing...
- White papers 2005-11-14
- The Use of Grounded Theory as a Knowledge Development Tool
- Grounded Theory GT is a systematic approach to generating theory from data obtained through social science research. Knowledge management KM is a systematic approach for ordering corporate data to achieve sustained optimal performance in an organization. This paper examines the extent to which GT is an effective tool in the...
- White papers
- From Transactional to Transcendental: Toward an Integrated Theory of Leadership
- This paper explores the spiritual dimensions of leadership by setting forth a theory that both integrates and extends the transactional and transformational theories of leadership. Specifically, the authors' proposes that the transcendental theory of leadership set forth in the paper comprises three dimensions of spirituality (consciousness, moral character, and faith)...
- White papers
- A Unified Theory of Market Partitioning: An Integration of Resource-Partitioning and Sunk Cost Theories
- This paper's objective is to integrate sociology's and economics' theories of market partitioning into a unifying framework: Glenn Carroll's resource-partitioning and John Sutton's sunk cost theories, respectively. In so doing, two important theory fragments from organizational ecology and industrial organization are integrated in an attempt to understand the antecedents and...
- White papers 2003-06-26
- Building Theory From Data In The Field Of Entrepreneurship
- In this paper we discuss building grounded theory in entrepreneurship research. We describe the history of grounded theory methodology and the location of the methodology within the umbrella of qualitative research methods, also raising broader issues of grounded theory's paradigmatic position. We also provide a description of each phase of...
- White papers 2005-02-07
- The Strategy Pyramid: How to Create and Sustain Success
- Built around the theory introduced in "Strategy, Redefined." later termed the Theory of Business Solutions, this presentation highlights another facet of this theory – its unifying character. While the business world is divided between a "you are what you do" perspective and a "you are what you say" perspective...
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Motivation Theories
- The highest state of self-actualization is characterized by integrity, responsibility, magnanimity, simplicity and naturalness. Self –actualizers focus on problems external to themselves. This paper discusses three theories namely traditional theory X and theory Y and theory Z. The theories helps the manager in making decision concerning the employee and to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Goes Corporate
- The Six Sigma theory encourages the adoption of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control DMAIC approach within an organization. The approach helps in improving the overall performance of the organization. Sigma indicates how far a process has deviated from perfection. Six Sigma encourages quality and contributes in the growth and...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- The Quantal Theory of How the Immune System Discriminates Between 'Self and Non-Self'
- The "Quantal Theory", proposed herein, is based upon the "Clonal Selection Theory", in which explanation about the specificity as well as diversity of recognition of everything foreign in the environment is given. The "Quantal Theory" is built upon Burnet's premise that after antigen selection of cell clones, a proliferative expansion...
- White papers 2004-12-17
- Simulating Environment Contingencies Using Simvision
- In product development life cycle, specifically the facility development life cycle, utilization of tacit knowledge is critical during the earlier Feasibility and Entitlements phases. Tacit knowledge is the 'know how' that is not explicitly available to an enterprise. In order to inform organizational design, a computational organization theory tool is...
- White papers 2004-08-02
- Accounting For Trends In Productivity And R&D: A Schumpeterian Critique Of Semi-Endogenous Growth Theory
- This paper argues that long-run trends in R&D (Research & Development) and TFP Total Factor Productivity are more supportive of fully endogenous "Schumpeterian" growth theory than they are of semi-endogenous growth theory. The distinctive prediction of semi-endogenous theory is that sustained TFP growth requires sustained growth of R&D input. But...
- White papers 2006-01-24
- Motivation
- In the world of opportunities, employee motivation has become the key word to resource retention. Present here are a set of slides that talks about the psychological forces that determine the direction of employee behavior, the persistent delay in achieving goals and how motivation theories could do wonders in such...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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