Topic flotante
organizations
Area of study
Common and divergen interests
Diverse research interest and settings
Researchers from differents diciplines vary in the extent kind of organizations
they choose the topic to study
Diverse organizations
The level of analysis is determinated by the nature of the dependentvariable
diverse levels of analysis
Come in bewildering variety of sizes an shapes
They relate to and draw on different surrounding and eviroments
Common fetures
Convergence of interest around these common feature
Emergence of the area
Examing the functioning of legislatives bodies or public agencies
Economists were developing their theory of the firm
they were not attempting to generalize beyond these specific forms
Importance
Theoretical significance
Provide the setting for a variety of basic social process
As collective actors
They are fundamentals to the organizations
They can take
Recourses
Actions
As media
message is the medium
Effects in the organizations are the mechanisims
Source of social ills
focus on societal stratification systems
Growth in the power of public sector organizations
Ubiquity
Organizations
engaged in performing many tasks
Present in all parts
The same parts
The development
Gradual
Uncontroversial
Elements
Social Structure
Regularized aspects of the rekationships existing between participans in the organization
Technology
View the organization as a place
Some type of work is done
Goals
Indispensable to the understanding of organizations
Participants
Those individuals who make contributions to the organization
Return of a variety of indocuments
Capacities
Accontable
Behavior that take place within framework of rules
provides
justifications
gidelines
Reability
Same characteristics and advantages
Durable
Designed to persist all the time
Concepts
Open
Are congeries of independent flows and activities liking shifting conclusion of participants
Natural
Collectivities that are serching a lot of interest in common
Rational
Are collectivities instruct to the pursuit
Relatively specific goals and social structures
It can be defined in three concepts
Relatively
Have a specific goal
