8: Organization as communicating in the living present: how knowledge emerges in complex responsive processes of relating
- Identity and difference
- Complex responsive processes of relating in the living present
- Conclusion
At a general level, organizations exist in order to enable people to accomplish the joint action required for human living. The essence of organization is purposeful joint action and the last four chapters have been suggesting a way of understanding human action in terms of particular assumptions about its purpose. In other words, the foundations of the explanation I am suggesting are teleological. Teleology is concerned with why a particular phenomenon becomes what it becomes, that is, with the purpose that causes it to do ...
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