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- Title
Language and Organization.
- Authors
Daft, Richard L.; Wiginton, John C.
- Abstract
This paper argues that insight into organization functioning is related to the fit between language of description and type of organizational phenomenon. Natural language may be more powerful than mathematical language for understanding and describing many organization processes.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL research; ORGANIZATIONAL communication; LANGUAGE &; languages; SYSTEMS theory; MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL management; DECISION making; MANAGEMENT science; OPERATIONS research; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior research; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; MANAGEMENT controls
- Publication
Academy of Management Review, 1979, Vol 4, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0363-7425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMR.1979.4289017