Very Idea of Organization : Social Ontology Today
Subtitle: Kantian and Hegelian Reconsiderations
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789004302914
Subjects: Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804; Hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich, 1770-1831; Organizational sociology; Ontology
Description: This book presents a philosophical account of the phenomenon of organization. It takes as its starting point a debate in organization studies about the foundations of organizational research. This debate, however, is running into difficulties regarding the basic concept of the reality that organization studies deal with, that is regarding the ontology of organization. A convincing organizational ontology is not in sight. Therefore, Krijnen introduces a new meta-perspective, offering a more comprehensive and more fundamental social ontology in general as well as an organizational ontology in particular. Exploring the Kantian and Hegelian tradition of philosophy, he convincingly shows that a rejuvenated type of German idealism contains intriguing possibilities for developing a present-day social and organizational philosophy.