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Operativity And Typicality

Studies Of Meaning And Communication Theory In Organizational Research

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Drepper

    1. Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

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  • Well-founded overview of current topic and theory discussions

  • Connective discourses in social, cultural and communication studies

  • With application references for decision-making and management practice

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Basic Questions of a Meaning-Theoretical Organization Research

    • Thomas Drepper
    Pages 1-27

  3. Meaning: Operativity and Typicality

    • Thomas Drepper
    Pages 29-78

  4. Communicables: Meaning Movements and Meaning Determinations

    • Thomas Drepper
    Pages 79-150

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 151-172
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About this book

The present text discusses sense-theoretical foundations of recent organizational research and makes them visible by analyzing epistemological terms of current discourses in organizational science (cognition, institution, practice, culture, communication, semantics). In a further step, communication is discussed as an operative guiding concept for understanding organizational reproduction and networking and applied to various organizational phenomena (managementization, standardization, circulation of ideas, translation, design). This book thus sees itself both as a contribution to theory development in organizational research and as a contribution to the research field of "(world) society and organization." Overall, the individual studies in this text discuss and explore the relevance of an epistemological, social and societal foundation of organization theory on the basis of an operational theory of meaning.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

    Thomas Drepper

About the author

Dr. Thomas Drepper is a private lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Lucerne.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operativity And Typicality

  • Book Subtitle: Studies Of Meaning And Communication Theory In Organizational Research

  • Authors: Thomas Drepper

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42011-6

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-42010-9Published: 10 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-42011-6Published: 09 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 172

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Communication Studies, Knowledge - Discourse

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