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- Title
Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems.
- Authors
Daft, Richard L.; Weick, Karl E.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; WORK environment; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; DECISION making; ENVIRONMENTAL scanning (Business); INDUSTRIAL management; STRATEGIC planning; ORGANIZATIONAL research; COMPLEX organizations
- Publication
Academy of Management Review, 1984, Vol 9, Issue 2, p284
- ISSN
0363-7425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMR.1984.4277657